Alok Bhargava

Alok Bhargava
Alok Bhargava
Born (1954-07-13) 13 July 1954
Alwar, Rajasthan, India
Alma mater Delhi University
London School of Economics
Occupation Professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy

Alok Bhargava (born 13 July 1954) is an Indian econometrician. He studied mathematics at Delhi University and economics and econometrics at the London School of Economics. He is currently a full professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy.[1]

Education

In 1974 he received his B.A with honors in Mathematics at Delhi University. In 1977 he got his B.Sc in Economics at London School of Economics. In 1978 he received his M.Sc in Economometrics at London School of Economics.[2] Bhargava received his Ph.D. in econometrics from the London School of Economics under the supervision of John Denis Sargan in 1982. His thesis (The Theory of the Durbin–Watson Statistic with special reference to the Specification of Models in Levels as against in Differences) led to many tests for unit roots that were used in co-integration analyses. Bhargava also worked on econometric methods for longitudinal ("panel") data.[3]

Career

From 1983 till 1989 he served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Pennsylvania. From 1989 till 1993 he was an Associate Professor of Economics at University of Houston and was a full professor from 1994 to around 2012. During the autumn of 1995 he was invited to teach at Harvard University as a Visiting Professor. In 1999 he was a Senior Global Health Leadership Fellow at World Health Organization. In 2005 he served as a Visiting Professor at University of Paris.[4]

Since 1991, Bhargava has been publishing on important aspects of nutrition, food policy, population health, child development, demography, epidemiology, AIDS, and finance in developing and developed countries.[5] His academic publications demonstrate the usefulness of rigorous econometric and statistical methods in addressing issues of under-nutrition and poor child health in developing countries, as well as obesity in developed countries.

Bhargava was an editor of the Journal of Econometrics (1997 and 2014) and is an associate editor of the multi-disciplinary journal Economics and Human Biology.[6] He has held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and University of Houston,and has published over 70 articles in academic journals.[7]

Books and reviews

A collection of his works has been reprinted in a separate volume in 2006 entitled "Econometrics, statistics and computational approaches in food and health sciences".[2]

Selected publications

  • Bhargava A, Franzini L, Narendranathan W. Serial Correlation and the Fixed Effects Model. Review of Economic Studies, 1982
  • Bhargava A "On the Theory of Testing for Unit Roots in Observed Time Series," Review of Economic Studies, July, 1986
  • Bhargava A. Testing covariance restrictions in systems of simultaneous equations with vector autoregressive errors. International Economic Review, 1989
  • Bhargava A "An Econometric Analysis of the U.S. Postwar G.N.P," Journal of Population Economics, September, 1990
  • Bhargava A. "Malnutrition and the role of individual variation with evidence from India and the Philippines". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, General 1992
  • Bhargava A. "Analysis of data on health", Journal of Econometrics, 1997
  • Bhargava A "Nutrition, health and economic development: Some policy priorities", Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 2001
  • Bhargava A, Fox-Kean M. The effects of maternal education versus cognitive test scores on child nutrition in Kenya. Economics & Human Biology,2003
  • Bhargava, A,. S. Chowdhury and K.K. Singh "Healthcare infrastructure, contraceptive use and infant mortality in Uttar Pradesh, India", Economics and Human Biology, 2005
  • Bhargava A. "AIDS epidemic and healthcare infrastructure inadequacies is Africa: A socioeconomic perspective", Journal of AIDS, 2005
  • Bhargava, A., and Docquier, F. "HIV pandemic, medical brain drain and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa", World Bank Economic Review, 2008.
  • Bhargava, A., Booysen, F. "Healthcare infrastructure and emotional support are predictors of CD4 cell counts and quality of life indices of patients on antiretroviral treatment in Free State Province, South Africa", AIDS Care, 2010.
  • Bhargava, A. "An econometric analysis of dividends and share repurchases by U.S. firms", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2010.
  • Bhargava, A., Guntupalli, A.M., and Lokshin, M. "Healthcare utilization, socioeconomic factors and child health in India", Journal of Biosocial Science, 2011.
  • Bhargava, A. "Executive compensation, share repurchases and investment expenditures: Econometric evidence from U.S. firms". Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2013.
  • Bhargava, A. "Firms’ fundamentals, macroeconomic variables and quarterly stock prices in the U.S.", Journal of Econometrics, 2014.
  • Bhargava, A. "Diet quality, child health and food policies in developing countries", World Bank Research Observer, 2015.
  • Bhargava, A. "Protein and micronutrient intakes are associated with child growth and morbidity from infancy to adulthood in the Philippines", Journal of Nutrition, 2016.
  • Bhargava, A., Booysen, F., and Walsh, C. "Health status, food insecurity, and time allocation patterns of patients with AIDS receiving antiretroviral treatment in South Africa", AIDS Care, 2018.
  • Bhargava, A. "Climate variability, rice production and groundwater water depletion in India", Environmental Research Letters, 2018.

References

  1. ↑ "Maryland School of public Policy". Retrieved 2009-01-20.
  2. ↑ Alok BHARGAVA
  3. ↑ Bhargava, Alok (2006). Econometrics, Statistics and Computational Approaches in Food and Health Sciences. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-256-841-0.
  4. ↑ Alok BHARGAVA
  5. ↑ Bhargava, Alok (2008). Food, Economics, and Health. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926914-9.
  6. ↑ "Economics & Human Biology – Elsevier". Retrieved 2009-01-20.
  7. ↑ "CV Alok Bhargava". Retrieved 2009-01-20.
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