Karra Presents Research at SPH Global Health Seminar Series
Mahesh Karra, Assistant Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently presented his research on the impact of distance on health and well-being at the Boston University School of Public Health Global Health Research Seminar Series on November 27, 2017.
The Global Health Research Seminar Series is a weekly research seminar series that features the work of researchers who have a global impact.
Karra’s presentation, entitled “Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Distance on Health: Evidence from Two Studies,” explored the role of distance on health and well-being using both theoretical and empirical approaches.
The research presentation was aimed at understanding how distance is related to utilization and health, exploring measurement error and inference problems with mismeasured distance data (and, more generally, with data with deliberately induced measurement error), and proposing a methodological solution to these measurement and inference problems.
Karra’s academic and research interests are broadly in development economics, health economics, quantitative methods, and applied demography. His research utilizes experimental and non-experimental methods to investigate the relationships between population, health, and economic development in low- and middle-income countries.