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Sumirtha Gandhi
Assistant Professor
Department of Management Studies
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012
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Sumirtha@gmail.com

About Me

Education

Ph.D. (Economics), (2021), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
M.A. (Economics), (2010), Loyola College, Madras
B.A. (Economics), (2008), Hansraj College, Delhi University

Introduction

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies at IISC, Bengaluru, and a visiting researcher at Newcastle University, UK. I hold a PhD in Economics from IIT Madras and completed my undergraduate studies in Economics Honors at Hansraj College, Delhi University. My research primarily centers on Development Economics, with specific emphasis on the intersection of Health Economics and Behavioral Economics. Some of the previous and ongoing research interests include: Impact Evaluation of Maternal and Child Healthcare, Pregnancy Care Decision Making, Tribal Healthcare Decision-Making Examining Biases, Social Preferences, Incentives, and Motivation, COVID-19 Care Prediction and Exploration of Healthcare Inequities.

Research Projects

Research

"Choosing Social Entrepreneurs by Residents in Informal Settings" (2023)

• Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
• Funding Agency: Rising Tide Foundation, U.K.<
• Status: Ongoing Research Project: "Willingness to Pay for Education Among the Informal Settings" (2022)
• Role: Principal Investigator (PI)
• Funding Agency: Rising Tide Foundation, U.K.
• Status: Ongoing
• Research Project: "Impact of Ahar Anudan Yojana on Nutrition and Healthcare among Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Madhya Pradesh" (2022)
• Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
• Funding Agency: Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis, Madhya Pradesh
• Status: Submitted
• Research Project: "Impact of MGNREGS in Preventing Distress Migration in North Karnataka" (2022)
• Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
• Funding Agency: Karnataka State Rural Development and Panchayat Raj
• Status: Submitted
• Research Project: "Quantum and Spread of Government Support to Households: Direct and Indirect Transfer of Subsidies, Goods and Services under Social Protection Policies in Select States of South India" (2022)
• Role: Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
• Funding Agency: UNICEF, Hyderabad
• Status: Ongoing

Research Project:

Papers Published :

• Predictors of the Utilisation of Continuum of Maternal Health Care Services in India. 2022. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1):1-12.
• Horizontal Inequity in the Utilisation of Continuum of Maternal Health Care Services (CMHS) in India: An Investigation of ten years of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).2022
• International journal for equity in health, 21(1):1-15.
• Level of Inequality and the Role of Governance Indicators in the Coverage of Reproductive Maternal and Child Healthcare Services: Findings from India. 2021. PloS one. 16(11).
• A Systematic Review of Demand-based and Supply-based Interventions on Continuum of Maternal and Child Healthcare in South Asian countries. 2021.Journal of Public Health, 29(4):857-870.
• Projecting Demand-Supply Gap of Hospital Capacity in India in the Face of COVID- 19 Pandemic Using Age-Structured Deterministic SEIR model. 2020.Infectious Disease Modelling,5: 608-621.
• Traversing the Margins: Access to Healthcare by Bakarwals in Remote and Conflictprone Himalayan Regions of Jammu and Kashmir. 2019.Pastoralism, 9(1): 1-16.
• Health Seeking Behaviour Among Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups: A Case Study of Nilgiris. 2017. Journal of Public Health and Epidemiology, 9(4):74-83.

Past Courses:

• Micro Economics
  
• Behavioural Economics
• Experimental Economics
• Health Economics
• Economics Of Growth and Development
• Advance Research Methods