Santosh Kumar

Santosh Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and International Business at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, USA. Before joining SHSU, Dr. Kumar has worked at University of Washington, Seattle and Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS). His research focuses on development economics, program evaluation, public health including the exploration of long-term effects of in-utero and early life conditions on human capital in developing countries. Some of his previous works have explored the effect of vaccination, access to road, electricity, microfinance, distance to health facility, access to iodized salt, exposure to drought, and sanitation on development outcomes such as cognition, education, child health in Bhutan and India. His articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, such as Health Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Applied Economics, Population and Development Review, PLoS ONE, and Journal of Public Health. He has served as Consultant for Asian Development Bank, Albanian Development Fund, and IARD. Dr. Kumar holds a MA in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and Ph.D. in Economics from University of Houston, TX, USA.