Archana Dang on Savings, Self-Control and Obesity Patterns
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This episode is the tenth in a miniseries of weekly short episodes featuring young scholars entering the academic job market who discuss their latest research. In this episode, Shruti talks with Dr. Archana Dang about her paper, \\u201cRole of Time Preferences in Explaining the Burden of Malnutrition: Evidence from Urban India.\\u201d They discuss India\\u2019s double burden of over- and undernutrition, why financial savings might be a good predictor of obesity, the effects of COVID on India\\u2019s obesity levels and much more. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth. Her research interests include the economics of health, specifically issues of overweight and obesity in India. Her work has been published in the journal Economics and Human Biology.
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