Arnab Mukherji

Arnab Mukherji is an applied microeconomist whose earlier work has focused on the economics of healthcare and governance with a focus on India. His work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals and as book-chapters that are targeted to an academic audience. Some of this has been cited in the media in places as diverse as the Wall Street Journal, Knowledge@Wharton, Business Standard, and the World Bank Blog. He also writes popular pieces in the Hindu Business Line and has been a part of the organizing committee for the IIMB Policy Hackathon since its inception. Dr. Mukherji is interested in how survey and administrative data can be used to inform public policy. He has been using this in the context of health where he has been studying the impact of social policy on health outcomes and also in the context of how governance impacts economic growth.

Selected Journal Articles:

Barnes, K., Arnab Mukherji, P. Mullen, and N. Sood (2017) Financial Risk Protection from Social Health Insurance, Journal of Health Economics, 55(9):14-29. Arnab Mukherji, S. Roychoudhury, P. Ghosh and S. Brown, Estimating Healthcare Demand for an Aging Population: A Flexible and Robust Bayesian Joint Model, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 31(6): 1140–1158. A. Ghosh and Arnab Mukherji, (2014) Air Pollution and Respiratory Ailments among Children in Urban India: Exploring Causality, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 63(1): 191-222 N. Sood, E. Bendavid, Arnab Mukherji, Z. Wagner, S. Nagpal, and P. Mullen, (2014) Can Insurance Improve Health? A Quasi-Experimental Evaluation of a Government Health Insurance Program For the Poor in India. BMJ, 349, g5114 Arnab Mukherji, (2013) Evidence on Community Driven Development from an Indian village, Journal of Development Studies, 49(11): 1548-1563. Selected Research Proposals:

Cash for Electoral Votes in India (with Anirban Mitra, and Shabana Mitra; see http://www.ideasforindia.in/article.aspx?article=Consumption-spikes-and-election-days). Development Epidemiology: identifying evidence-based interventions for population health and promoting health equity, an international collaboration led from McGill University and funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research. 2017-2021.