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B.A. (University of Delhi);


M.A. (Jamia Milia Islamia University);


Ph.D. (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi)

Dr. Sunaina Dhingra

Associate Professor

Email sunaina@jgu.edu.in
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Key Expertise Applied Microeconometrics, Empirical Development Economics, Economics of Health, Nutrition and Education and Family Economics

B.A. (University of Delhi);


M.A. (Jamia Milia Islamia University);


Ph.D. (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi)


Biography

Dr. Sunaina Dhingra is an Associate Professor at the Jindal School of Government and Public Policy of O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed to Be University) since 2021.  She completed her Ph.D. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi in 2018. Before joining JGU, she was a Post-Doctoral Associate with the Tata Cornell Institute (TCI) in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, USA. She received an M.A in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi and a B.A.in Economics from Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, Delhi University. Her areas of research interest lie in the fields of Applied Microeconometrics, Empirical Development Economics, Economics of Health, Nutrition and Education and Family Economics. She has extensive field work experience in rural India. At JSGP, she teaches courses on Core Econometrics, Applied Econometrics and Microeconomics of Development. Sunaina also brings wide-ranging undergraduate and graduate teaching experience to JGU. She has taught courses at IIM Rohtak, the Delhi School of Economics, and various undergraduate colleges of Delhi University. 

Applied Econometrics

Microeconomics of International Development

Public Finance

Microeconometrics

Econometrics 1

Econometrics 2

Basic Econometrics (Coursera)

Rao, Nirmala & Bala, Manya & Ranganathan, Namita & Anand, Utkarsh & Dhingra, Sunaina & Costa, Janaina Calu & Weber, Ann. (2023). Trends in the prevalence and social determinants of stunting in India, 2005–2021: findings from three rounds of the National Family Health Survey. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. 6. e000648. 10.1136/bmjnph-2023-000648.

Aiyar, Anaka & Dhingra, Sunaina & Pingali, Prabhu. (2021). "Transitioning to an obese India: Demographic and structural determinants of the rapid rise in overweight incidence, Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 43(C).

Dhingra S, Pingali PL. (2021). Effects of short birth spacing on birth-order differences in child stunting: Evidence from India. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 ;118(8):e2017834118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2017834118. PMID: 33602815; PMCID: PMC7923660.

Dhingra Sunaina. (2017). A Decomposition Analysis of the Change in Nutritional Outcomes of Girls between 1992-93 and 2005-06 in Rural India, The Delhi University Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Email sunaina@jgu.edu.in
Key Expertise Applied Microeconometrics, Empirical Development Economics, Economics of Health, Nutrition and Education and Family Economics
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