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Arindam Nandi CDDEP 1616 P St NW, Ste 600 Washington, DC 20036 USA

Email: nandi@cddep.org Web: http://www.cddep.org/researchers/arindam_nandi Work Phone: (+1)202-328-5119 Citizenship: India; US Visa Status: H1-B

Education PhD in Economics – University of California, Riverside, 2010 M.Sc. in Economics – University of Calcutta, India, 2003 B.Sc. in Economics (honors), Mathematics, Political Science – RKMR College Narendrapur, University of Calcutta, India, 2001 Research Publications Arindam Nandi and Anil B. Deolalikar (2013). “The Impact of a Ban on Sex-Selective Abortion on the Juvenile Sex ratio in India: Evidence from a Policy Change”, Journal of Development Economics. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2013.02.007 Arindam Nandi (2009). “The Importance of the Global Health Sector in California: An Evaluation of the Economic Impact”, University of California Global Health Institute. (Report endorsed by the Governor of California) http://ucghi.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/eir/ Jha P, Guindon E, Joseph RA, Nandi A, John RM, Rao K, Chaloupka FJ, Kaur J, Gupta PC, Rao MG. (2011). “A rational taxation system of bidis and cigarettes to reduce smoking deaths in India”.

Economic and Political Weekly; 46(42): 44-51.

Working Papers Guindon GE, Nandi A, Chaloupka FJ, Jha P. (2011) "Socioeconomic Differences in the Impact of Smoking Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on Smoking in India". NBER Working Paper No. 17580.

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series. Under review at Applied Economics. http://www.nber.org/papers/w17580.pdf.

Arindam Nandi, Ashvin Ashok, and Ramanan Laxminarayan (2013). “The Socioeconomic and Institutional Determinants of the Implementation and Uptake of India's Health Insurance Scheme for the Poor”. Revise and Resubmit at PLOS One. Arindam Nandi (2012). “The Unintended Effects of a Sex-Selective Abortion Ban on Gender Gap in Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Rural India”. Under review at the Review of Development Economics.

Arindam Nandi and Ramanan Laxminarayan (2012). “The Unintended Effects of India's Safe Motherhood Scheme (Janani Suraksha Yojana) on Population Growth and Gender Imbalance”.

Arindam Nandi, Ashvin Ashok, Emmanuel Guindon, Prabhat Jha, Frank J. Chaloupka. (2013). “The Economic Contributions of the Bidi Manufacturing Industry in India”.

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Papers in Progress Arindam Nandi, Itamar Megiddo, and Ramanan Laxminarayan. “An agent-based simulation modeling approach to extended cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions”.

Arindam Nandi. “Demand for Fertility and the Preference for Sons: New Evidence from Twin Births and Infertility Shocks in India” Other Writing Emmanuel Guindon, Arindam Nandi, Frank J Chaloupka, and Prabhat Jha. “Socioeconomic differences in the impact of smoking tobacco and alcohol prices on smoking in India” Voxeu 23 December, 2011. http://new.voxeu.org/article/why-india-should-increase-taxes-cigarettes Arindam Nandi. “Missing Women”: An overview of the gender imbalance debate and public policy”. Part 1: 21 September, 2010. Part 2: 30 September, 2010. CDDEP Arindam Nandi. “If You Build It, Will They Come? Demand-side incentives for public healthcare delivery in India”. 8 October, 2010. CDDEP Arindam Nandi. “Series Examines Prospect of Universal Healthcare Coverage in India”. 26 January, 2011. CDDEP Arindam Nandi. “The Health of India’s Health Insurance Scheme for the Poor: White Elephant or White Noise?”. 10 January, 2013. CDDEP Research Experience Research Fellow, October 2012 – Present, The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP), Washington DC Postdoctoral Scholar, October 2010 – September 2012, The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Washington DC Postdoctoral Scholar, September 2010 – October 2010, Resources for the Future, Washington DC Summer Intern, 2009, Dept. of Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco Research Assistant for Professor Anil Deolalikar, 2008, University of California, Riverside Summer Intern, 2006, South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, The World Bank, New Delhi, India Extended Term Consultant, 2004-2005, South Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit, The World Bank, New Delhi, India Consultant, 2003, South Asia Human Development Unit, The World Bank, New Delhi, India Teaching Experience Lecturer in Statistics and Econometrics, Summer 2008 and Fall 2009, University of California, Riverside Teaching Assistant in Statistics, Econometrics, Introductory and Intermediate Microeconomics, Introduction to Macroeconomics, 2006-2010, University of California, Riverside

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Guest Lecturer in Economic Theory, Development Economics, Information technology and its Application in Business, 2003, Bankim Sardar College, University of Calcutta, India Invited Talks and Conference Presentations “The Impact of a Ban on Sex-Selective Abortion on the Juvenile Sex ratio in India: Evidence from a Policy Change”, at University of California, Riverside, Applied Economics Seminar Series, Spring 2009 Resources for the Future, Winter 2010 Max Planck Institute of Demographic Research, Winter 2010 Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev), Spring 2010 Howard University, Fall 2010 Center for Global Development, Spring 2011 The Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, March 2011 7th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, December 2011 “The Impact of Tobacco and Alcohol Prices on the Use of Tobacco Products in India”, at the 8th World Congress on Health Economics (International Health Economics Association), Toronto, 2011 “The Unintended Negative Effects of India's Safe Motherhood Scheme (Janani Suraksha Yojana) on Health and Population Growth”, at the Public Health Foundation of India, September 2011 “Economic evaluation of universal public finance of rotavirus immunization for South Asia”, at the Second Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Beijing, 2012 “An agent-based simulation modeling approach to extended cost-effectiveness analysis of health interventions”, at the 39th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, New York, May 2013 “The Unintended Effects of a Sex-Selective Abortion Ban on Gender Gap in Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Rural India”, at the 39th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economic Association, New York, May 2013 Scientific Peer Reviewing and Journal Editing Activities Peer Reviewer, Oxford Development Studies Associate Editor, Cost-effectiveness and Resource Allocation (BioMed Central) http://www.resource-allocation.com/about/edboard Awards and Grants Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship, 2005-2006, University of California, Riverside Disease Control Priorities 3, from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, PI: Dean Jamison (University of Washington, Seattle), http://www.dcp-3.org/who-we-are, Support as a researcher during 2010-2015

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Return on Investment, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (sub-grant through Resources for the Future), PI: Mark Cohen (RFF and Vanderbilt University), Support as a researcher during 2011-2012 Determine the economic impact of poverty-related risk factors for cognitive development and human capital (“Saving Brains”), from Grand Challenges Canada (sub-grant through the University of Pennsylvania), Support as an investigator during 2012-2013 Languages English, Elementary knowledge of Spanish Others (Indian Languages) – Hindi, Bengali (Native)