2026 Jishnu Das: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	51	2566	2341	1252	1129	123	11316

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

1135
Citations
The Quality of Medical Advice in Low-Income Countries

Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer;Kenneth Leonard

552
Citations
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

545
Citations
Report cards : the impact of providing school and child test scores on educational markets

Tahir Andrabi;Jishnu Das;Asim Ijaz Khwaja

527
Citations
A Dime a Day : The Possibilities and Limits of Private Schooling in Pakistan

Tahir Andrabi;Jishnu Das;Asim Ijaz Khwaja

424
Citations
Money for nothing : the dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India

Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer

420
Citations
School Inputs, Household Substitution, and Test Scores

Jishnu Das;Stefan Dercon;James Habyarimana;Pramila Krishnan

366
Citations
Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics

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

335
Citations
Quality and Accountability in Health Care Delivery: Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India

Jishnu Das;Alaka Holla;Aakash Mohpal;Karthik Muralidharan

331
Citations
The impact of recall periods on reported morbidity and health seeking behavior

Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer;Carolina Sanchez-Paramo

320
Citations
A practical comparison of the bivariate probit and linear IV estimators

Richard C. Chiburis;Jishnu Das;Michael Lokshin

303
Citations
Religious School Enrollment in Pakistan: A Look at the Data

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

296
Citations
Mental health and poverty in developing countries: revisiting the relationship.

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

287
Citations
Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study

Jishnu Das;Ada Kwan;Benjamin Daniels;Srinath Satyanarayana

281
Citations
Reassessing Conditional Cash Transfer Programs

Jishnu Das;Quy-Toan Do;Berk Ozler

257
Citations
Quality of Primary Care in Low-Income Countries: Facts and Economics

Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer

238
Citations
Which doctor? Combining vignettes and item response to measure clinical competence

Jishnu Das;Jeffrey Hammer

235
Citations
The fiscal cost of weak governance : evidence from teacher absence in India

Karthik Muralidharan;Jishnu Das;Alaka Holla;Aakash Mohpal

229
Citations
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

167
Citations
Quality of tuberculosis care in India: a systematic review

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

162
Citations
Teacher shocks and student learning : evidence from Zambia

Jishnu Das;Stefan Dercon;James Habyarimana;Pramila Krishnan

155
Citations
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

138
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey S. Hammer Princeton University

Veena Das Johns Hopkins University

Crick Lund University of Cape Town

Vijayendra Rao World Bank

Catherine Goodman London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Yaojiang Shi Stanford University

External Links

Personal website of Jishnu Das Google Scholar page

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