Awards and Honors

Recognition Award for Teaching and Research, QUT Business School, 2019.

Winner - Best Paper Prize, Australian Health Economic Society, 2019 (best paper in health economics by an Australian author in 2017-18).

Excellence in Teaching practices through Expert Peer Review of Educational Practice (ExPREP), QUT, 2019.

Outstanding Research Award for Faculty, College of Business, Louisiana Tech University, 2008.

Article titled “Mortality, Fertility and Persistent Income Inequality” figured on Social Science Research Network’s Top Ten List for Health and the Economy, April 2008.

Invitation and Award, American Economic Association/Omicron Delta Epsilon Graduate Student Invited Papers Session at the ASSA meetings in Boston, January 2006.

Full Tuition Scholarship, Southern Methodist University, 2000 – 2004.

Teaching Assistantship, Southern Methodist University, 2000 – 2004.

Commendation, Omicron Delta Epsilon, The International Honor Society in Economics, 2002.

Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission, India, 1996 – 1999.

Means-cum-Merit Scholarship, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 1993 – 1995.

National Merit Scholarship, Government of India, 1990 – 1993.