Nilanjan Patra is pursuing his PhD in Economics from Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. His interest areas are Health Economics and empirical issues of Macroeconomics. He has almost four years of teaching experience in various undergraduate colleges of University of Delhi. Nilanjan is also a recipient of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Doctoral Fellowship from Sep, 2008. He has two papers in refereed journals and contributed a chapter in an edited volume (forthcoming).