Archana Dang
Archana Dang
Archana Dang is a Assistant Professor(On Contract) at the Institute of Economic Growth. Her current research interests include the economics of health, specifically behavioral economics and overweight and obesity issues in India. She conducted a primary survey of over 800 households to identify the determinants of burgeoning overnutrition issues. One of Archana's papers got published in Economics and Human Biology. In addition, she has co-authored two book chapters published by ADBI and Springer. She obtained her Ph.D. and Master's in Economics from the Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
Journal Publications
Dang, A., Maitra, P., & Menon, N. (2019). “Labor Market Engagement and the Body Mass Index of Working Adults: Evidence from India.” Economics & Human Biology, 33, 58-77.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1570677X18301151
Jain, A., Gupta, P., Anand, S. P. S., & Dang, A. (2016). “Digital Paper Prints as Replacement for LASER Films: A Study of Intra-Observer Agreement for Wrist Radiographic Findings in Rickets.” Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, JCDR, 10(8), TC11-14.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5028466/
Book Chapters
Dang, A., Maitra, P., & Menon, N. (2019). “The Geography of Excess Weight in Urban India: Regional Patterns and Labour Market and Dietary Correlates” in Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Yoshiro Higano and Peter Nijkamp, editors, Disease, Human Health, and Regional Growth and Development in Asia, Springer, 47-69.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-6268-2_3
Dang, A., & Meenakshi, J. V. (2018). “The nutrition transition and the intra-household double burden of malnutrition in India” in Helble Matthias and Azusa Sato, editors, Wealthy But Unhealthy: Overweight and Obesity in Asia and the Pacific: Trends, Costs, and Policies for Better Health, Asian Development Bank Institute,15-45.
Working Papers/Papers Under Submission (Review)
Obesity and its Impact on COVID Occurrence: Evidence from India (joint with Indrani Gupta) Institute of Economic Growth Working Paper no.430, 2021 (under submission).
http://iegindia.in/upload/profile_publication/doc-240521_180751WP430.pdf
Role of Time Preferences in Explaining the Burden of Malnutrition: Evidence from Urban India. Centre for Development Economics Working Paper no. 309, 2020 (under review).
http://econdse.org/wp-content/uploads/work309.pdf
Media Publications
Role of Time Preferences in Explaining the Burden of Malnutrition: Evidence from Urban India – Podcast with Shruti Rajagopalan on Ideas of India, 2021
https://ideasofindia.libsyn.com/archana-dang-on-savings-self-control-and-obesity-patterns
Covid-19: Does obesity play a role? – Ideas for India, 2021
https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/human-development/covid-19-does-obesity-play-a-role.html.
Labor Market Engagement and the Body Mass Index of Working Adults: Evidence from India
