Abhijit Visaria

Abhijit Visaria's research interests include Son preference, socioeconomic differentials in morbidity, healthcare utilization, and mortality, public-private partnerships, and program evaluation research. Since 2009, Abhijit has also been a research associate at Penn's Center for the Advanced Study of India, working on projects related to measuring the quality of healthcare and public private partnership models in healthcare. Abhijit worked in India for four years with ICICI Bank's Social Initiatives Group on initiatives for rural and urban health systems reform and integrating health programs with micro finance groups. Abhijit has an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Delhi and a Masters degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. His dissertation research examines the role of religious identity in son preference. In particular, he analyzes differences between Hindus and Muslims, the two largest religious groups in India, in terms of son preference manifested in ideal and actual fertility measures, as well as in terms of children’s health and nutritional outcomes. He has presented his work at annual meetings of the Population Association of America and the American Sociological Association and the Asian Populatin Association.