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Nidhya Menon is Associate Professor of Economics at Brandeis University, an affiliate of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis, and a Research Fellow at IZA. Her research interests are development economics, health, and labour. Current projects include short and long-term evaluations of the health consequences of water pollution in India, implications of the creation of a land market in Vietnam on household outcomes and child health, and programme evaluation in Indonesia in the absence of longitudinal data. She has been a researcher at the Grameen Bank, and a consultant with the World Bank and the United Nations Foundation in the past.
Posts by Nidhiya Menon
कोयला आधारित बिजली इकाइयों से प्रदूषण और बच्चों एवं महिलाओं की एनीमिक स्थिति
स्वास्थ्य पर वायु प्रदूषण के प्रभाव को व्यापक रूप से शोध-साहित्य में जगह मिली है। जहां अन्य अध्ययनों में मुख्य रूप से सामान्य रुग्णता और मृत्यु दर जैसे परिणामों पर ध्यान केंद्रित किया गया है, यह लेख ...
- Sourangsu Chowdhury Gaurav Datt Sagnik Dey Pushkar Maitra Nidhiya Menon Ranjan Ray
- 07 जनवरी, 2021
- लेख
Pollution from coal-based power units and anaemic status of children and women
An extensive literature has considered the impact of air pollution on health. While studies have mainly focussed on outcomes such as general morbidity and mortality, this article evaluates the impact ...
- Sourangsu Chowdhury Gaurav Datt Sagnik Dey Pushkar Maitra Nidhiya Menon Ranjan Ray
- 02 December, 2020
- Articles
Religion and Health in Early Childhood in India
This project aims to investigate the puzzle of child undernourishment in India by comparing differences in child health outcomes by religious affiliation.
- Nidhiya Menon
- 31 March, 2018
- IGC Research on India
Health policy and economic growth in India
A new synthesis paper (Menon 2017) produced by the International Growth Centre brings together evidence from various health-related IGC studies on India undertaken over the past seven years, to draw i...
- Nalini Gulati Nidhiya Menon
- 27 July, 2017
- Perspectives
The growing problem of excess weight in India
The Indian population is increasingly becoming overweight or obese, and this phenomenon is likely to impose a considerable health burden in the future. Analysing data from the Indian Human Development...
- Pushkar Maitra Nidhiya Menon
- 27 June, 2016
- Articles
Religion and health in early childhood: Evidence from South Asia
The widespread malnutrition of children in South Asia is persistent and troubling. Given the importance of religion in the region, this column examines the relationship between inequalities in child ...
- Elizabeth Brainerd Nidhiya Menon
- 03 July, 2015
- Articles
The unintended child health consequences of the Green Revolution in India
While the Green Revolution in India greatly enhanced agricultural production, the enhanced use of fertilisers led to the contamination of surface and ground water. This column analyses the impact of f...
- Nidhiya Menon
- 09 September, 2013
- Articles
Seasonal Effects of Water Quality on Maternal and Infant Health in India
This project examines the impact of fertiliser agrichemicals in water on infant and child health using data on water quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the ...
- Elizabeth Brainerd Nidhiya Menon
- 01 April, 2011
- IGC Research on India