Bheemeshwar Reddy A

Biographic Data

ID4640924
NAMEBheemeshwar Reddy A
GIVEN NAMESBheemeshwar A
FAMILY NAMEReddy
SIGNATUREA B R
AFFILIATIONSBirla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
ORCID0000-0002-2736-8193
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • A generalised framework for measuring catastrophic health expenditure using poverty indices

    Open AccessJay Dev Dubey, Dushyant Kumar et al.ARTICLEReview of Economics of the…2026

    This paper introduces a Chakravarty-type poverty index as an alternative measure of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE), offering a theoretically robust framework that accounts for inequality among households experiencing CHE. Unlike conventional CHE measures that treat all overshoots uniformly, the Chakravarty adaptation incorporates a flexible ethical aversion parameter, enabling differential weighting of moderate and extreme overshoots. The …

  • One size does not fit all

    Open AccessJay Dev Dubey, Dushyant Kumar et al.ARTICLEHealth Policy and Planning2026References: 50

    This study develops an inverse rank-weighted index (IRWI) to adjust catastrophic thresholds for out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) components. The proposed method eliminates the arbitrariness of the existing proportionate approach by ensuring fairness in determining component-specific catastrophic thresholds. It measures the effective expenditure share of each OOPE component while considering the concentration of component-specific spending across …

  • Caste, class, city and choice

    Open AccessBheemeshwar Reddy A, Prakash Kumar Shukla et al.ARTICLEUrban Studies2026References: 58

    This article investigates the interplay between housing segregation and school segregation in major Indian cities, emphasising the broader implications for urban equity. Analysis of UDISE+ and population census data reveals a positive and statistically significant association between residential segregation rooted in caste divisions and the perpetuation of caste-based school segregation in urban India. This residential segregation, stemming from …

  • Gender Inequality in Land Ownership in India

    Rakesh Kumar Mahato, Arindam Das et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2025References: 32

  • What explains the gender gap in unpaid housework and care work in India

    Open AccessAthary Janiso, Prakash Kumar Shukla et al.ARTICLEDevelopment Policy Review2024

  • Class in caste

    Open AccessPrakash Kumar Shukla, Prakash Shukla et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2024Cited by: 1References: 15

  • EWS Quota

    Open AccessSunny Jose, Bheemeshwar Reddy A et al.ARTICLESocial Change2023References: 1

    Are economically weaker sections (EWS) students from the general category, who are not disadvantaged socially and educationally, underrepresented in higher education institutions in India? We examine this question by analysing a novel database of educational institutions in India, which were ranked in 2019 and 2022. The share of EWS students remains well above 10 per cent in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF)-ranked higher educat…