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Aparajita Dasgupta is Assistant Professor in Economics at Ashoka University. Previously, she worked as the Bixby Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Population Council based in New Delhi. She completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Economics at University of California Riverside in 2013. She is an applied micro-economist by training and her research mainly deals with policy-relevant questions in development economics, health, education and public policy. Her primary research interest has been to understand the dynamics of early childhood environment in shaping long-term human capital outcomes in the context of developing countries. Some of her other current work includes understanding the biases in measurement of health, examining the role of decentralisation of health and family planning services on evolution of long-term health, and exploring the sorting behaviour in school choice decision among Indian households. She has extensive field work experience in Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal. She has presented at several international conferences including the American Economic Association, University of Oxford, IZA-World Bank Conference among others.