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Abhradeep Karmakar
Abhradeep Karmakar is a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Lawrence University. He is an applied microeconomist with research interests in health economics, development economics, and the economics of education. Specifically, his work studies the impact of development programmes on children’s health and educational outcomes. He completed a PhD in Economics from the University of New Mexico in 2023, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Calcutta, obtained in 2014 and 2016, respectively.
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Reversing the trend: Improving toilet access for better test scores
Poor sanitation is associated with adverse health outcomes among children, which in turn are linked with poor educational outcomes. Leveraging the staggered implementation of ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ across districts in India during 2014-2018, this article shows that exposure to the programme improves children’s test performance in the short term, with larger estimated benefits the longer districts were exposed to the programme
