Biography

Kompal Sinha is Associate Professor of Economics and Research Director at the Department of Economics Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University. Kompal is also Associate Editor at the Journal of Population Economics.  She is the cluster leader for the research cluster “Health, Development, Inequality and Behavior” at the Global Labor Organisation.

Kompal has previously worked at Monash University, Melbourne. She received her PhD in Economics was from The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Kompal Sinha is interested in investigating the association between socioeconomic factors, health economics and economic development. Employing microeconometric methods and machine learning techniques she studies the role of preference heterogeneity in individual/household decision making and its impact on the design of economic policy. Her research focuses on a range of developed and developing countries including Australia, United Kingdom, India, China, Indonesia, Vietnam and Botswana and North America to analyse issues including determinants of subjective well being; health measurement; measurement of multidimensional deprivation; intra-household dynamics in household decision making; effects of health related knowledge and awareness on behaviour; determinants of health in retirement; effect of minimum unit price of alcohol; national and sub-national purchasing power parities (PPPs);  health and nutrition insecurity; malnutrition and child health; the economic modelling of health services, policies and programs.  Her research has been published in highly ranked journals in economics including Health Economics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, American Journal for Agricultural Economics, Social Science and Medicine, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Energy Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Biosocial Sciences, Value in Health, British Medical Bulletin among other.

Publications and Reports

• Best, R., & Sinha, K. (2021). Fuel poverty policy: Go big or go home insulation. Energy Economics.
• Bilgrami, A., Sinha, K., & Cutler, H. (2020). The impact of introducing a national scheme for paid parental leave on maternal mental health outcomes. Health Economics, 29(12), 1657-1681.
• Nicholas A, Ray, R , Sinha, K. (2019) Differentiating Between Dimensionality and Duration in Multidimensional Measures of Poverty: Methodology with an Application to China, Review of Income and Wealth, 65 (1), 48-74 (2019).
• Sharma, A. and Etilé, F, Sinha, K. (2016) The Effect of Introducing a Minimum Price on Alcohol Consumption: A Counterfactual Analysis, Health Economics (2016).
• Frijters, P., Johnston, D. and Shields, M. and Sinha, K (2015) A Lifecycle Perspective of Stock Market Performance and Wellbeing, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 112: 237-250.
• Richardson J, Iezzi A, McKie J, and Sinha, K (2014) An Instrument for measuring the Relative Social Willingness to Pay for health state improvement, Health Economics, 23 (7), (2014), 792-805.
• Majumder, A., Ray, R and Sinha, K (2012) The Calculation of Rural Urban Food Price Differentials from Unit Values in Household Expenditure Surveys: a new procedure and comparison with existing methods, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, (2012), Vol 94 (5).
• Richardson, J., Iezzi, A, Maxwell, A. and Sinha, K. (2012) Maximum life years or sharing: Public preferences for allocating a limited health budget, Social Science and Medicine, (2012), Vol 75 (8), pp 1351- 1361.
• Ray, R and Sinha, K (2012) Interaction between HIV awareness, knowledge, safe sex practice and HIV incidence: evidence from Botswana, Journal of Biosocial Science, 44, 321-344.