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Jishnu Das publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jishnu Das sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 123 publications — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Jishnu Das D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jishnu Das sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jishnu Das is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, social sciences, and economics. Their work spans several subfields, including economics and econometrics, infectious diseases, education, general health professions, and finance.

Their research covers a range of main topics such as school choice and performance, healthcare systems and reforms, tuberculosis research and epidemiology, global maternal and child health, poverty, education, and child welfare, healthcare policy and management, and pneumonia and respiratory infections.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Jishnu Das include:

  • Antibiotic prescription practices in primary care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, PLoS Medicine)
  • Antibiotic overuse in the primary health care setting: a secondary data analysis of standardised patient studies from India, China and Kenya (2020, BMJ Global Health)
  • Teacher Value Added in a Low-Income Country (2020, American Economic Journal Economic Policy)
  • Two Indias: The structure of primary health care markets in rural Indian villages with implications for policy (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Human Capital Accumulation and Disasters (2021, The Journal of Human Resources)

Frequent coauthors working alongside Jishnu Das include Benjamin Daniels, Madhukar Pai, Tahir Andrabi, Natalie Bau, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja.

Publication venues where Jishnu Das has frequently contributed include:

  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • BMJ Global Health
  • PLOS Global Public Health
  • The Lancet Global Health

Jishnu Das has contributed to several book publications mainly associated with the World Bank eBooks, Washington, DC. Titles include:

  • New Evidence on Learning Trajectories in a Low-Income Setting (2021)
  • Women in the Pipeline: A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps (2020)
  • The Prices in the Crises: What we are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (2023)
  • Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills in Low-Income Countries: Measurement and Associations with Schooling and Earnings (2023)
  • Randomized Regulation: The Impact of Minimum Quality Standards on Health Markets (2023)
  • Caseloads and Competence in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Fundamental Reassessment of the Human Resources Crisis in Primary Health Care (2025)

Best Publications

  • Poverty and mental disorders: breaking the cycle in low-income and middle-income countries

    Crick Lund;Mary De Silva;Sophie Plagerson;Sara Cooper

  • The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries

    Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer;Kenneth Leonard

  • In Urban And Rural India, A Standardized Patient Study Showed Low Levels Of Provider Training And Huge Quality Gaps

    Jishnu Das;Alaka Holla;Veena Das;Manoj Mohanan

  • Report cards : the impact of providing school and child test scores on educational markets

    Tahir Andrabi;Jishnu Das;Asim Ijaz Khwaja

  • A Dime a Day : The Possibilities and Limits of Private Schooling in Pakistan

    Tahir Andrabi;Jishnu Das;Asim Ijaz Khwaja

  • Money for nothing : the dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India

    Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer

  • School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

    Jishnu Das;Stefan Dercon;James Habyarimana;Pramila Krishnan

  • Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics

    Tahir Andrabi;Jishnu Das;Asim Ijaz Khwaja;Tristan Zajonc

  • Quality and Accountability in Health Care Delivery: Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India

    Jishnu Das;Alaka Holla;Aakash Mohpal;Karthik Muralidharan

  • The impact of recall periods on reported morbidity and health seeking behavior

    Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer;Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

  • A practical comparison of the bivariate probit and linear IV estimators

    Richard C. Chiburis;Jishnu Das;Michael Lokshin

  • Religious School Enrollment in Pakistan: A Look at the Data

    Tahir Andrabi;Jishnu Das;Asim Ijaz Khwaja;Tristan Zajonc

  • Mental health and poverty in developing countries: revisiting the relationship.

    Jishnu Das;Quy-Toan Do;Jed Friedman;David McKenzie

  • Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study

    Jishnu Das;Ada Kwan;Benjamin Daniels;Srinath Satyanarayana

  • Reassessing Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

    Jishnu Das;Quy-Toan Do;Berk Ozler

  • Quality of Primary Care in Low-Income Countries: Facts and Economics

    Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer

  • Which doctor? Combining vignettes and item response to measure clinical competence

    Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer

  • The fiscal cost of weak governance : evidence from teacher absence in India

    Karthik Muralidharan;Jishnu Das;Alaka Holla;Aakash Mohpal

  • The impact of training informal health care providers in India: A randomized controlled trial

    Jishnu Das;Jishnu Das;Abhijit Chowdhury;Reshmaan Hussam;Abhijit V. Banerjee

  • Quality of tuberculosis care in India: a systematic review

    S. Satyanarayana;R. Subbaraman;P. Shete;G. Gore

  • Teacher shocks and student learning : evidence from Zambia

    Jishnu Das;Stefan Dercon;James Habyarimana;Pramila Krishnan

  • Pakistan - Learning and Educational Achievements in Punjab Schools (LEAPS) : insights to inform the education policy debate

    Tahir Andrabi;Jishnu Das;Asim Ijaz Khwaja;Tara Vishwanath

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey S. Hammer
Jeffrey S. Hammer Princeton University
Madhukar Pai
Madhukar Pai McGill University
Stefan Dercon
Stefan Dercon University of Oxford
Veena Das
Veena Das Johns Hopkins University
Harold Alderman
Harold Alderman International Food Policy Research Institute
Pedro Carneiro
Pedro Carneiro University College London
Scott Rozelle
Scott Rozelle Stanford University
Vijayendra Rao
Vijayendra Rao World Bank
Crick Lund
Crick Lund University of Cape Town

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