Debasis Barik is a Senior Fellow, at the NCAER National Data Innovation Centre. He is a demographer by training with a specialization in economic demography and ageing. He has worked on public health, migration, gender, and intergenerational well-being. However, more than a decade of work at NCAER has diversified his research career, now spanning the intersection of demography, economics, and human development. Dr. Barik’s current research focuses broadly on the adaptation process of Indian households to environmental threats.
In recent years, Dr. Barik has focused extensively on the design and implementation of large household surveys. As a member of the core team for the India Human Development Survey – Wave 3, he has helped design questions slated to be administered to nearly 50,000 households nationwide, taking into account the geographical and cultural diversity of India. He has also developed tools for remote monitoring of data and quality control.
His research has been published in journals of global repute, including World Development, Feminist Economics, and Health Economics. He has served on the expert group of National Health Accounts (NHA), formed by the National Health System Resource Centre (NHSRC), Government of India, to institutionalize the NHA estimates annually. He also contributes opinion articles to English language dailies.
JOURNAL | Feminist Economics
Gender and Generation: Land Ownership and Older Indians’ Autonomy
Debasis Barik, Sonalde Desai and Hope Xu Yan
2023
REPORT | NCAER
Insured but Not Covered: Rising Insurance Coverage Should be Accompanied by Awareness of Entitlements
Debasis Barik, Santanu Pramanik, Sonalde Desai
2020
POLICY BRIEF | IHDS Website
A Glass Half Full: Changes in Standard of Living since 2012
Sonalde Desai | Manjistha Banerji | Debasis Barik | Dinesh Tiwari | O.P. Sharma
2020
JOURNAL | World Development
Economic Status and Adult Mortality in India: Is the Relationship Sensitive to Choice of Indicators?
D Barik, Sonalde Desai & Reeve Vanneman
2018
JOURNAL | Health Economics
Evolving health expenditure landscape of the BRICS nations and projections to 2025
Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Elena Potapchik, Larisa Popovich, Debasis Barik and Thomas E. Getzend
2016
JOURNAL | Frontiers in Public Health
Rising Health Expenditure Due to Non-communicable Diseases in India: An Outlook
D Barik & Perianayagam Arokiasamy
2016
JOURNAL | Frontiers in Public Health
Issues of unequal access to public health in India
D Barik & A thorat
2015
JOURNAL | Economic and Political Weekly Vol I, No,. 24
After the Dividend: Caring for a Greying India
D Barik, Tushar Agrawal & Sonalde Desai
2015
JOURNAL | Middle East Journal of Age and Ageing
Living Arrangements and Treatment Seeking Behaviour of the Elderly from Different Economic Segments in India
D Barik
2012
BOOK CHAPTER | Springer Nature
After the Dividend: Caring for a Greying India
D Barik, Tushar Agrawal & Sonalde Desai
2017
REPORT | India Infrastructure Report 2013|14 – The Road to Universal Health Coverage
Determinants of Private Healthcare Utilisation and Expenditure Patterns in India
D Barik & Sonalde Desai
BOOK CHAPTER | Concept Publishing Company
Environmental Performance and its Determinants – A Study of Pulp and Paper Industry in India
S K Jana and D Barik | S K Jana and M K Pal (eds.)
2011
Opinion | The Indian Express
National interest, financial rewards do little to convince families to have more children
Sonalde Desai and Debasis Barik
October 25, 2024
Opinion | The Hindu Business Line
The piquant case of a successful maternity benefit scheme
Debasis Barik and Sonalde Desai
March 1, 2024
OPINION | The Hindu
A remedy for health insurance
Debasis Barik
February 2023
OPINION | The Hindu
How India is choking indoors
Debasis Barik
July 2022
OPINION | The Hindu
With India’s demographic transition, come challengess
Sonalde Desai and Debasis Barik
December 2021
OPINION | The Hindu
Smoking Kills – in India too
D Barik & S Desai
May 2015
OPINION | The Hindu
Poorly performing public service
D Barik, S Desai & T Aggarwal
April 2014
OPINION | Macro Track
Old & Lonely Health Care
D Barik
August 2013
OPINION | Macro Track
Shift in Morbidity Patterns among Indians
D Barik
July 2013