Consultancy Projects Undeertaken by Prof Krishna T. Kumar

Causality between Periodontal disease and Cardiovascular diseases·

Methodology for Studying the Judicial Impact Assessment of any New Legislation on judicial system, for the Supreme Court of India, Samkhya Analytica India Pvt. Ltd. (2007-2008)

· Willingness to Pay for Drinking Water by the Poor in Bangalore, Subcontracted from Australian Agency for International Development (2000-2001)

· Social Benefit Cost Analysis of Middle Vaitarani Reservoir Scheme of Drinking Water Supply to Greater Bombay, Sub-contract from, National Institute of Environmental Engineering, Nagpur, University of Hyderabad

(1989-91)

· Research Study on Pricing and Costing of Health Services in India, for UNDP, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, 1993-94.

· Social Cost Benefit Analysis of Ganga-Brahmaputra Link Canal, for Central Water Commission, India, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (1983-85)

· The Effect of Rent Control on Housing Situation in Bangalore for the World Bank, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (1982-83)

· Social Cost Benefit Analysis of a new metropolitan suburban rail link between old Bombay (Mumbai) and New Bombay (Navi Mumbai), for Bombay Metropolitan Regional Development Authority, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (1979-81)

· Economics of the Housing Sector in India, for Indian Council of Social Science Research (1978-79)

· Measurement of Productivity of Budgeting Function in State Governments, Universities and Hospitals for National Science Foundation (under competitive bidding for the Research Applied to National Needs, RANN program of NSF), Abt Associates Inc, Cambridge, Ma.(1976-77)

· Analysis of Prospective Reimbursement Scheme in Hospitals in Upstate New York; analysis of a social experiment for the Social Security Administration, Abt Associates Inc, Cambridge. Ma.(1975-76)

· Also served as an in-house statistical consultant for problems dealing with multiple regression packages of SPSS on main frame CDC computer, Abt Associates, Cambridge, Ma. (1975-77)

· Directed a part of statistical analysis (determinants of participation behavior) of a large data base drawn from social housing demand experiment conducted for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Abt Associates Inc, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1975-77)

· Economics of aquaculture, for US AID, US State Department, Department of Economics, Florida State University, (Summer 1974)