Pragya Taneja

Pragya Taneja is a senior research fellow in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Roorkee. She is working in health economics with an inclination towards behavioural economics. She has also been active in writing newspaper articles. Her last two newspaper articles are related to the area of health and behavioural economics during covid. Her areas of interest include public policy and development economics. She is also an expert in handling large-scale survey data. She is socially interactive and participates actively in the campaigns and events happening on campus. Her drawing and painting ability helps her to materialize her visualization into reality. Being an enthusiastic learner, she never overlooks an opportunity to provide cent-percent of her potential.

Health and Behavioural Economics

B.A. (Hons.) Economics: Delhi University

M.A. Economics: CCSU, Meerut

Paper titled "Multidirectional Associations Between Polymorbidity and Health Outcomes Among Pre-Elderly and Elderly: Findings from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India" accepted for publication in Journal of Population and Social Studies Vol. 33.

Paper titled "Health Seeking Behaviour during high health-risk period: A Bibliometric Analysis" accepted for publication in Informatics for Health and Social Care

"Importance of Behavioral Economics during Covid", in Agenda, The Pioneer, 2021.

"Need for Behavioral insights for healthy India", in Agenda, The Pioneer, 2022.

Paper titled "Unveiling the Nexus: Polymorbidity and Healthcare accessibility among pre-elderly population in India" is presented at Health, Morbidity and Mortality Working Group Annual Meeting 2024,European Association of Population Studies EAPS HMMWG 2024.

"How Healthy Are Old Age Population in India? Predictive Estimates of Non-Communicable Diseases among Elderly and Pre-Elderly Population in Pre-Covid Period", in Sectoral Impacts of Covid 19 pandemic in India, 10th Annual Conference of Indian Health Economics and Policy Association, 2022

"Relative Risk Estimates of Multimorbidity among Pre-elderly and elderly: Evidence from India", in econworld2022@Athens, XIV. International Conference on Economics, 2022.