Alok Bhargava (born 13 July 1954) is an Indian econometrician. He studied mathematics at

Delhi University Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...

and

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and econometrics at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 mill ...

. He is currently a full

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at the

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Education

In 1974 he received his B.A with honors in Mathematics at

. In 1977 he got his B.Sc in Economics at

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 mill ...

. In 1978 he received his M.Sc in Economometrics at

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 mill ...

.Curriculum Vitae: Alok BHARGAVA
/ref> 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

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s that were used in co-integration analyses. Bhargava was also one of the pioneers in econometric methods for longitudinal ("panel") data.

Career

From 1983 till 1989 he served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at

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. From 1989 till 1993 he was an Associate Professor of Economics at

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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

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. In 2005 he served as a Visiting Professor at

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. Since 1991, Bhargava has been publishing on important aspects of

nutrition Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It provides organisms with nutrients, which can be metabolized to create energy and chemical structures. Failure to obtain sufficien ...

food policy Food policy is the area of public policy concerning how food is produced, processed, distributed, purchased, or provided. Food policies are designed to influence the operation of the food and agriculture system balanced with ensuring human healt ...

, population health,

child development Child development involves the Human development (biology), biological, developmental psychology, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the conclusion of adolescence. Childhood is divided into 3 stages o ...

demography Demography () is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings. Demographic analysis examines and measures the dimensions and dynamics of populations; it can cover whole societies or groups defined by criteria such as ed ...

epidemiology Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evide ...

, AIDS, and finance in developing and developed countries. His academic publications demonstrate the usefulness of rigorous econometric and

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methods in addressing issues of under-nutrition and poor child health in developing countries, as well as

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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''. He has held teaching positions at the

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and

, and has published over 70 articles in academic journals.

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". A monograph entitled "Food, economics, and health" was published in 2008 and was reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association with the commendation that "Alok Bhargava is a pioneer in efforts to break down the existing firewalls between the biomedical and social sciences and between the health profession and the food systems (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/186008).

Selected publications

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References

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