Sneha's research lies in the fields of global health, development, and gender, with a focus on South Asia. Her overarching research agenda is concerned with studying how patriarchy affects women’s and children’s health and well-being in South Asia. Her current research focuses on what can time use data from South Asia tell us about gendered division of paid and unpaid labor within the household. And how does public policy affect this gendered division of labor within the household. Sneha is driven to establish time use as an indispensable policy tool. Sneha is also interested in studying individual and health system level barriers to improving health outcomes. Sneha obtained her PhD in Health Economics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. And was a postdoctoral fellow at the Chair of Development Economics in the Centre for Modern Indian Studies , University of Göttingen before joining IIT.
Research Areas
Health Economics, Gender Economics, Demography, Labor Economics, Development Economics
Academic Background
PhD, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
MA, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University
BSc, Presidency College, University of Calcutta
Employment History
Assistant Professor of Economics, 2025-current
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2023-2025
Department of Economics and Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS),
University of Göttingen
Publications
Lamba, Sneha and Robert Moffitt. 2025. “The Rise in American Pain:
The Importance of the Great Recession”. Health Economics.
https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4971
Anglewicz, Philip, Sneha Lamba, Illiana Kohler, James Mwera,
Andrew Zulu, and Hans-Peter Kohler. 2023. “Is Experience of the
HIV/AIDS Epidemic Associated with Responses to COVID-19?
Evidence from the Rural Malawi.” PLOS ONE 18(10): e0292378.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0292378
Lamba, Sneha, Carrie Wolfson, Carolina Cardona, Y. Natalia Alfonso,
Alison Gemmill, Beth Resnick, Jonathon P. Leider, J. Mac McCullough,
and David Bishai. 2022. “Past Local Government Health Spending
Was Not Correlated with COVID-19 Control in US Counties.”
SSM - Population Health 17:101027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.10102
Bishai, David M., Beth Resnick, Sneha Lamba, Carolina Cardona,
Jonathon P. Leider, J. Mac McCullough, and Alison Gemmill. 2022.
“Being Accountable for Capability— Getting Public Health Reform Right
This Time.” American Journal of Public Health e1–5.
https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306975
Acharya, Arnab, Carrie Wolfson, Sasmira Matta, Carolina Cardona, Sneha
Lamba, and David Bishai. 2021 “The Role of Public Health Expenditures
in COVID-19 Control: Evidence from Local Governments in England.”
SSM - Population Health 15:100861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100861
Spears, Dean and Sneha Lamba. 2016 “Effects of Early-Life Exposure to
Sanitation on Childhood Cognitive Skills.” Journal of Human Resources
51(2). https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.51.2.0712-5051R1
Lamba, Sneha and Dean Spears. 2013. “Caste, ‘Cleanliness’ and Cash:
Effects of Caste-Based Political Reservations in Rajasthan on a Sanitation
Prize.” The Journal of Development Studies 49(11):1592–1606.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2013.828835
Hasan, Rana, Sneha Lamba, and and Abhijit Sen Gupta. 2015. “Growth,
Structural Change and Poverty Reduction”. In Labour, Employment
and Economic Growth in India, edited by K. V. Ramaswamy, 91–126.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.