Abhishek Dureja

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Abhishek Dureja

Abhishek Dureja is a Research Scholar at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. His primary research interests include health economics, development economics, risk and insurance, and applied econometrics. His current work focusses on the welfare consequences of health shocks, and the associated ex-post risk-coping strategies used by poor rural agricultural households in developing countries.

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अल्पकालिक बीमारी और परिवार में श्रम का प्रतिस्थापन

गरीब कृषि परिवारों में स्वास्थ्य-संबंधी झटकों की वजह से होने वाले चिकित्सा खर्चों का असर उनके पास के सीमित संसाधनों पर पड़ता है और इसके परिणामस्वरूप रोजगार के संभावित उत्पादक दिनों का नुकसान होता है। ग्रामीण भारत के आंकड़ों के आधार पर, यह लेख दर्शाता है कि एक बार की बीमारी के कारण बीमार व्यक्ति की औसत मासिक मजदूरी आय में 7% की गिरावट आती है। इसके साथ ही, परिवार के पुरुष मुखिया की बीमारी के कारण उसकी पत्नी की बाजार में श्रम आपूर्ति में औसतन 3.2% की वृद्धि होती है।

10 September 2021
Productivity and Innovation
Productivity & Innovation

Short-term illness and intra-household labour substitution

For poor, agricultural households, health shocks strain limited resources on medical expenses, and result in loss of potential productive work-days. Based on data from rural India, this article shows that an illness episode causes a 7% decline in the ill individual’s average monthly wage income. Further, the male household head’s illness leads to the wife increasing her market labour supply by 3.2%, on average.

27 August 2021
Productivity and Innovation
Productivity & Innovation
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