Research

Publications

  1. Does High-Speed Internet (Broadband) Technology Affect the Mental Health of Older Adults?

    Vikas Gawai (2026)

    Conditionally accepted

  2. CDC's Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Flexible Funding Mechanism Is Associated with Improved Population Health Outcomes

    Sergey Sotnikov, Kelly Kilburn, Vikas Gawai, Nancy Habarta, Cassandra Frazier, and Karen Mumford (2026)

    Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, forthcoming

  3. Is There a Link between Access to Broadband and Health Outcomes?

    Vikas Gawai and Steven Deller (2025)

    American Journal of Economics and Sociology

  4. Discrimination in Science: Salaries of Foreign- and U.S.-Born Land-Grant University Scientists

    Jeremy Foltz and Vikas Gawai (2025)

    American Journal of Agricultural Economics

  5. Early-Life Economic Conditions and Old-Age Male Mortality: Evidence from Historical County-Level Bank Deposit Data

    Hamid Noghanibehambari, Jason Fletcher, Lauren Schmitz, Valentina Duque, and Vikas Gawai (2024)

    Journal of Population Economics

Research under External/Internal Review

  1. Cost Efficiency of a Centralized Funding Mechanism: Evidence from CDC's National Partnership Umbrella Cooperative Agreement

    Vikas Gawai, Nancy Habarta, Ruth Gould, Sergey Sotnikov, Kristen Chapman, Caroline Sulal, Karla Checo Martinez, Hazel Dean, and Ermias Belay (2026)

  2. Cost Efficiency Analysis of CDC's Centralized Funding Mechanism Using a Stochastic Frontier Approach: Evidence from CDC's U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands Cooperative Agreement

    Vikas Gawai, Jessica Irizarry, Megan Harbour, Camila Rodriguez-Rojas, Hazel Dean, and Ermias Belay (2026)

  3. Effect of Early-Life Exposure to the Green Revolution on Aging Outcomes in India

    Vikas Gawai, Lauren Schmitz, Valentina Duque, and Jinkook Lee

  4. Cognitive Function and Life-Course Patterns: Evidence from the Longitudinal Aging Study of India

    Kanika Arora, Shubhashrita Basu, Vikas Gawai, Junjie Gai, and Lauren Schmitz

Working Papers

  1. Association between CDC's Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Public Health Infrastructure Investments and Performance of State Public Health Departments

    Vikas Gawai, Sergey Sotnikov, Nancy Habarta, Sonal Doshi, Shaunt A. Wright, Katherine Butler Smart, and Donatus U. Ekwueme

  2. Association between CDC's Accreditation Funding and Performance of State Health Departments

    Adrienne Gill, Vikas Gawai, Hannah McMillan, Deborah Bryant, Nancy Habarta, and Hazel Dean

  3. The Evolving Economic Burden of Cancer Survivors in the United States, 2011–2024

    Donatus U. Ekwueme, Vikas Gawai, Sabitha Dasari, Yamisha Bermudez, Sun Hee Rim, Susan Sabatino, Janet S. de Moor, David A. Siegel, Michael T. Halpern, and K. Robin Yabroff

  4. Spillover Effects of a Bicycle Policy on Girls' Enrollment in Middle Schools

    Vikas Gawai

    Best Research Paper, Honorable Mention

  5. Effects of Teacher Hiring Policy on Students’ Learning in Rural India: A Multi-Cutoff Regression Discontinuity Design Approach.

    Vikas Gawai

  6. Does Broadband Technology Affect Social Security Applications?

    Vikas Gawai