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'''Alok Bhargava''' (born 13 July 1954) is an Indian [[econometrics|econometrician]]. He studied mathematics at [[Delhi University]] and [[economics]] and econometrics at the [[London School of Economics]]. He is currently a full [[professor]] at the [[University of Maryland School of Public Policy]].<ref name="cv" />

== Education ==
In 1974 he received his B.A with honors in Mathematics at [[Delhi University]]. In 1977 he got his B.Sc in Economics at [[London School of Economics]].
In 1978 he received his M.Sc in Economometrics at [[London School of Economics]].<ref name="ufs cv">[https://www.ufs.ac.za/docs/librariesprovider23/all-documents/cv---alok-bhargava-120-eng.pdf?Status=Master&sfvrsn=0|title= Curriculum Vitae: Alok BHARGAVA ]</ref>
Bhargava received his [[Ph.D.]] in econometrics from the London School of Economics under the supervision of [[John Denis Sargan]] in 1982. His thesis (''The Theory of the [[Durbin–Watson]] Statistic with special reference to the Specification of Models in Levels as against in Differences'') led to many tests for [[unit root]]s that were used in [[co-integration]] analyses. Bhargava was also one of the pioneers in econometric methods for longitudinal ("panel") data.<ref name="book">{{cite book|last1=Bhargava|first1=Alok|year=2006|url=https://archive.org/details/econometricsstat00alok|title=Econometrics, Statistics and Computational Approaches in Food and Health Sciences|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-981-256-841-0|url-access=registration}}
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==Career==
From 1983 till 1989 he served as an Assistant Professor of Economics at [[University of Pennsylvania]]. From 1989 till 1993 he was an Associate Professor of Economics at [[University of Houston]] and was a full professor from 1994 to around 2012. During the autumn of 1995 he was invited to teach at Harvard University as a Visiting Professor.
In 1999 he was a Senior Global Health Leadership Fellow at [[World Health Organization]]. In 2005 he served as a Visiting Professor at [[University of Paris]].<ref name="ufs cv" />

Since 1991, Bhargava has been publishing on important aspects of [[nutrition]], [[food policy]], [[population health]], [[child development]], [[demography]], [[epidemiology]], [[AIDS]], and [[finance]] in developing and developed countries.<ref name="books2">{{cite book |last1= Bhargava| first1=Alok|year=2008|url=http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Economics/Health/?view=usa&ci=9780199269143 |publisher=Oxford University Press|title= Food, Economics, and Health|isbn=978-0-19-926914-3
}}</ref> His academic publications demonstrate the usefulness of rigorous [[econometric]] and [[statistical]] methods in addressing issues of under-nutrition and poor child health in developing countries, as well as [[obesity]] in developed countries.

Bhargava was an editor of the Journal of Econometrics (1997 and 2014) and is an associate editor of the multi-disciplinary journal ''[[Economics and Human Biology]]''.<ref name="editor">{{cite web |url=http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaleditorialboard.cws_home/622964/editorialboard |title=Economics & Human Biology – Elsevier |access-date=2009-01-20}}</ref> He has held teaching positions at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], [[Harvard University]] and [[University of Houston]], and has published over 70 articles in academic journals.<ref name="cv">{{cite web |url=http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/faculty/alok-bhargava |title=Alok Bhargava|publisher=University of Maryland School of Public Policy |access-date=2009-01-20}}</ref>

== Books and reviews ==
A collection of his works has been reprinted in a separate volume in 2006 entitled "Econometrics, statistics and computational approaches in food and health sciences".<ref name="book" /> A monograph entitled "Food, economics, and health" was published in 2008 [4] and was reviewed in the Journal of American Medical Association with the commendation that "Alok Bhargava is a pioneer in efforts to break down the existing firewalls between the biomedical and social sciences and between the health profession and the food systems (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/186008).

==Selected publications==
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhargava |first1=A. |last2=Franzini |first2=L. |last3=Narendranathan |first3=W. |title=Serial Correlation and the Fixed Effects Model |journal=The Review of Economic Studies |date=October 1982 |volume=49 |issue=4 |pages=533 |doi=10.2307/2297285|jstor=2297285 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Sargan |first1=J. D. |last2=Bhargava |first2=Alok |title=Testing Residuals from Least Squares Regression for Being Generated by the Gaussian Random Walk |journal=Econometrica |date=January 1983 |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=153 |doi=10.2307/1912252 |jstor=1912252 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhargava |first1=Alok |title=On the Theory of Testing for Unit Roots in Observed Time Series |journal=The Review of Economic Studies |date=July 1986 |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=369–384 |doi=10.2307/2297634|jstor=2297634 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhargava |first1=Alok |title=Estimating Short and Long Run Income Elasticities of Foods and Nutrients for Rural South India |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society) |date=1991 |volume=154 |issue=1 |pages=157–174 |doi=10.2307/2982709|jstor=2982709 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhargava |first1=Alok |last2=Jamison |first2=Dean T |last3=Lau |first3=Lawrence J |last4=Murray |first4=Christopher JL |title=Modeling the effects of health on economic growth |journal=Journal of Health Economics |date=May 2001 |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=423–440 |doi=10.1016/S0167-6296(01)00073-X|pmid=11373839 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhargava |first1=Alok |title=AIDS epidemic and the psychological well-being and school participation of Ethiopian orphans |journal=Psychology, Health & Medicine |date=August 2005 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=263–275 |doi=10.1080/13548500412331334181|s2cid=143754659 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhargava |first1=Alok |last2=Docquier |first2=Frédéric |last3=Moullan |first3=Yasser |title=Modeling the effects of physician emigration on human development |journal=Economics & Human Biology |date=2011 |volume=9 |issue=2 |pages=172–183 |doi=10.1016/j.ehb.2010.12.004|pmid=21288783 |language=en|citeseerx=10.1.1.715.8033 }}
*{{cite journal |last1=Bhargava |first1=Alok |title=Executive compensation, share repurchases and investment expenditures: econometric evidence from US firms |journal=Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting |date=April 2013 |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=403–422 |doi=10.1007/s11156-011-0260-1|s2cid=154714709 }}

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