Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- prachi.singh@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
- School/Department
- Business School
Biography
Dr. Prachi Singh is an applied micro economist working in the field of environmental, health and development economics. Her research focuses on key environmental and sustainability issues in the global south which includes analyzing the effect of air pollution enhancing events like crop burning and forest fires on human health in India, transition to cleaner cooking fuels in India and policy evaluation of information campaign on arsenic contamination in Bangladesh.
Before joining University of Aberdeen, Prachi was a High Meadows Post-doctoral Economics Fellow at Environmental Defense Fund (NY). She completed her PhD in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi and her M.A. and B.A. in Economics from Delhi University.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Aberdeen Centre for Research in Energy Economics and Finance
- External Memberships
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Center for research on the Economics of Climate, Food, Energy and Environment (CECFEE), Indian Statistical Institute - Funded by Environment for Development (EfD)
- Research
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Research Areas
Economics
Research Specialisms
- Agricultural Economics
- Applied Economics
- Environmental and Public Health
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
- Publications
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Crop burning and forest fires: Long-term effect on adolescent height in India
Resource and Energy Economics, vol. 65, no. 101244, 101244Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2021.101244
Crop Fires and Cardiovascular Health: A Study from North India
SSM - Population Health, vol. 14, 100757Contributions to Journals: Articles