Vikas PD Gawai

Biographic Data

ID6550460
NAMEVikas PD Gawai
GIVEN NAMESVikas PD
FAMILY NAMEGawai
SIGNATUREGAWAI V P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT2
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Is there a link between access to broadband and health outcomes

    Open AccessVikas Gawai, Vikas PD Gawai et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Economics and…2025References: 56

    There is significant evidence of the positive effects of broadband expansion on various economic outcomes, including property values and business development, with a growing literature aimed at understanding the effect on health outcomes. We contribute to this later literature exploring the effect of broadband access on underexplored health using U.S. county data. After accounting for spatial dependency within the data we find that broadband avai…

  • Early-life economic conditions and old-age male mortality: Evidence from historical county-level bank deposit data

    Open AccessHamid Noghanibehambari, Jason M Fletcher et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2024Cited by: 1References: 8

    This paper studies the long-run mortality effects of in utero and early-life economic conditions. We examine how local economic conditions experienced during the Great Depression, proxied by county-level banking deposits during in utero and first years of life, influences old-age longevity. We find that a one-standard-deviation rise in per capita bank deposits is associated with an approximately 1.7 month increase in males’ longevity at old age. …