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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.
Posts by Aparajita Dasgupta
Preferences or expectations? Understanding the gender gap in choice of college majors
A multidisciplinary literature – mostly focused on the US – shows that choice of majors among college students is gendered, and females are particularly under-represented in math-intensive fields....
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Aparajita Dasgupta
Anisha Sharma
23 October, 2020
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कोविड-19: क्या हम लंबी दौड़ के लिए तैयार हैं? - भाग 2
इस आलेख के पहले भाग में, लेखकों ने भारत में कोविड-19 के प्रति सरकार की प्रतिक्रिया का मार्गदर्शन करने हेतु व्यापक सिफारिशें कीं। इस भाग में, वे पांच ऐसे समूहों की पहचान करते हैं जिनके वर्तमान संकट से ...
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Abhinash Borah
Sabyasachi Das
Aparajita Dasgupta
Ashwini Deshpande
Kanika Mahajan
Bharat Ramaswami
Anuradha Saha
Anisha Sharma
08 अप्रैल, 2020
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कोविड-19: क्या हम लंबी दौड़ के लिए तैयार हैं? - भाग 1
कोविड-19 के प्रसार की संभावित पुनरावृत्ति को रोकने के लिए यह लॉकडाउन, संभवतः भविष्य में किए जाने वाले कई लॉकडाउन में से पहला हो सकता है, इसलिए नीति निर्माताओं को इससे प्रतिकूल रूप से प्रभावित व्यक्तिय...
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Abhinash Borah
Sabyasachi Das
Aparajita Dasgupta
Ashwini Deshpande
Kanika Mahajan
Bharat Ramaswami
Anuradha Saha
Anisha Sharma
06 अप्रैल, 2020
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Covid-19: Are we ready for the long haul? - Part II
In Part I of this piece, the authors made broad recommendations to guide the government’s response to Covid-19 in India. In this part, they identify five salient population groups that are particula...
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Abhinash Borah
Sabyasachi Das
Aparajita Dasgupta
Ashwini Deshpande
Kanika Mahajan
Bharat Ramaswami
Anuradha Saha
Anisha Sharma
03 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Covid-19: Are we ready for the long haul? - Part I
As this may be the first of many future lockdowns to stamp out possible repeated outbreaks of Covid-19, policymakers must be prepared to provide relief to adversely affected individuals. With this in ...
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Abhinash Borah
Sabyasachi Das
Aparajita Dasgupta
Ashwini Deshpande
Kanika Mahajan
Bharat Ramaswami
Anuradha Saha
Anisha Sharma
02 April, 2020
- Perspectives
Child health, fertility, and sex ratio: India vs. Bangladesh
Despite having lower per capita income, Bangladesh has superior performance over India on key welfare indicators. This article compares the experiences of India and Bangladesh on several key indicator...
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Salma Ahmed
Aparajita Dasgupta
Ranjan Ray
22 November, 2018
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Self-reported health data: Issues and solutions
Health data from the National Sample Survey shows an increase in morbidity in India over the years. However, given that the data is self-reported, it is difficult to ascertain whether this indeed refl...
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Aparajita Dasgupta
23 March, 2016
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Can MNREGA buffer negative shocks in early childhood?
Exposure to negative shocks such as drought during early childhood is known to have lasting, detrimental effects on human development outcomes. This column examines whether a household’s access to ...
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Aparajita Dasgupta
29 August, 2014
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