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Overview

Debabrata Talukdar is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with a strong emphasis on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, as well as Nutrition and Dietetics. Their scholarly work also intersects with Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The topics covered in Debabrata Talukdar's research include:

  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Mind wandering and attention
  • Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions

Their publication record consists of studies published in multiple peer-reviewed venues, with a concentration in the following journals:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • PLoS ONE
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Journal of Consumer Affairs
  • The Lancet Global Health

Notable recent papers include:

  • The association between national income and adult obesity prevalence: Empirical insights into temporal patterns and moderators of the association using 40 years of data across 147 countries (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Associations between country-level macroeconomic factors and the double burden of malnutrition (2022, The Lancet Global Health)
  • Trend in the Double Burden of Malnutrition Among Adult Population in 188 Countries Over 42 Years: Insights and Implications from its Associative Relationship with National Income (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Debabrata Talukdar has collaborated extensively with several researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Satheesh Seenivasan
  • Adrian J. Cameron
  • Gary Sacks
  • Anish Nagpal
  • Julia Bayuk

Their research engages with global and ecological perspectives on nutrition and health, addressing complex issues such as the double burden of malnutrition and its socioeconomic correlates. Additional areas are financial vulnerability and mindfulness as part of psychological well-being.

Best Publications

  • Consumer information search revisited: Theory and empirical analysis

    Sridhar Moorthy;Brian T. Ratchford;Debabrata Talukdar

  • A Model of Consumer Choice of the Internet as an Information Source

    Brian T. Ratchford;Debabrata Talukdar;Myung-Soo Lee

  • The Impact of the Internet on Information Search for Automobiles

    Brian T. Ratchford;Myung Soo Lee;Debabrata Talukdar

  • Investigating New Product Diffusion Across Products and Countries

    Debabrata Talukdar;K. Sudhir;Andrew Ainslie

  • An Empirical Investigation of Signaling in the Motion Picture Industry

    Suman Basuroy;Kalpesh Kaushik Desai;Debabrata Talukdar

  • Does the Private Sector Help or Hurt the Environment? Evidence from Carbon Dioxide Pollution in Developing Countries

    Debabrata Talukdar;Craig M. Meisner

  • Slum Real Estate: The Low-Quality High-Price Puzzle in Nairobi’s Slum Rental Market and its Implications for Theory and Practice

    Sumila Gulyani;Debabrata Talukdar

  • Does Store Brand Patronage Improve Store Patronage

    K. Sudhir;Debabrata Talukdar

  • The Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of Price Search: Insights from Matching Household Survey and Purchase Data

    Dinesh K. Gauri;K. Sudhir;Debabrata Talukdar

  • Playing dirty or building capability? Corruption and HR training as competitive actions to threats from informal and foreign firm rivals

    Akie Iriyama;Rajiv Kishore;Debabrata Talukdar

  • Understanding poverty and promoting poverty alleviation through transformative consumer research

    Christopher P. Blocker;Julie A. Ruth;Srinivas Sridharan;Colin Beckwith

  • The impact of the internet on consumers' use of information sources for automobiles : A re-inquiry

    Brian T Ratchford;Debrabrata Talukdar;Myung-Soo Lee

  • Joint Optimization of Product Price, Display Orientation and Shelf-Space Allocation in Retail Category Management

    Chase C. Murray;Debabrata Talukdar;Abhijit Gosavi

  • Relationship between product groups' price perceptions, shopper's basket size, and grocery store's overall store price image

    Kalpesh Kaushik Desai;Debabrata Talukdar

  • Understanding poverty and promoting poverty alleviation through transformative consumer research

    Bige Saatcioglu;Christopher P. Blocker;Julie A. Ruth;Srinivas Sridharan

  • Inside Informality: The Links Between Poverty, Microenterprises, and Living Conditions in Nairobi’s Slums

    Sumila Gulyani;Debabrata Talukdar

  • How social influence affects consumption trends in emerging markets: An empirical investigation of the consumption convergence hypothesis

    Utpal M. Dholakia;Debabrata Talukdar

  • Universal (Non)service? Water Markets, Household Demand and the Poor in Urban Kenya

    Sumila Gulyani;Debabrata Talukdar;R. Mukami Kariuki

  • To Buy or Not to Buy: Consumers’ Demand Response Patterns for Healthy versus Unhealthy Food:

    Debabrata Talukdar;Charles Lindsey

  • Cost of Being Poor: Retail Price and Consumer Price Search Differences across Inner-City and Suburban Neighborhoods

    Debabrata Talukdar

  • An Empirical Analysis of the Extreme Cherry Picking Behavior of Consumers in the Frequently Purchased Goods Market

    Debabrata Talukdar;Dinesh K. Gauri;Dhruv Grewal

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian T. Ratchford
Brian T. Ratchford The University of Texas at Dallas
Bani K. Mallick
Bani K. Mallick Texas A&M University
J. Jeffrey Inman
J. Jeffrey Inman University of Pittsburgh
Gary Sacks
Gary Sacks Deakin University
Utpal M. Dholakia
Utpal M. Dholakia Rice University
T. Bettina Cornwell
T. Bettina Cornwell University of Oregon
Dhruv Grewal
Dhruv Grewal Babson College
Clifford J. Shultz
Clifford J. Shultz Loyola University Chicago
Rohit Deshpandé
Rohit Deshpandé Harvard University

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