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Utkarsh Kumar

Columbia University
uk2154@columbia.edu

Utkarsh is a Ph.D. Economics graduate from Columbia University. His research focuses on development issues in low-income countries with a special focus on gender, health, and industrial organisation. At the intersection of gender and health, he has worked on maternal healthcare, hospital service quality, indoor air pollution, and fertility. Utkarsh has previously worked with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on topics including digitalisation, financial inclusion, gender, and industrial policy. He was a research associate at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi before his Ph.D.

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क्या सार्वजनिक सेवाओं में सब्सिडी से बाज़ार अनुशासित होते हैं या मांग का स्वरूप खराब हो जाता है?

पूर्व में हुए शोधों ने भारत के प्रमुख सुरक्षित मातृत्व कार्यक्रम की विफलता को दर्ज किया है- यह कार्यक्रम प्रसवकालीन मृत्यु दर को कम करने में विफल रहा है जबकि सार्वजनिक स्वास्थ्य सुविधाओं में प्रसव करा...

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Does subsidising publicly provided services discipline markets or distort demand?

Prior research has documented the failure of India’s flagship safe motherhood programme in reducing perinatal mortality, despite substantially increasing the share of mothers delivering at public he...

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