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  2. Rajendra Dulal

Rajendra Dulal

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Associate Professor
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Dr. Dulal joined Commonwealth University - Bloomsburg in Fall 2020. He received his Ph.D. from Wayne State University in 2016 with a concentration in health economics and labor economics. After completion of his Ph.D., Dr. Dulal worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University for a year and joined Tulane University as a visiting faculty. Before joining Bloomsburg, he worked as a lecturer in the department of economics at the University of North Texas. Dr. Dulal received his master’s degree in economics from Western Illinois University and MS in applied physics from UMASS Boston.

Teaching Areas & Interests

  • Principles of Microeconomics
  • Business and Economics Statistics
  • Econometrics
  • Health Economics
  • Public Finance
  • Intermediate Microeconomics
  • Labor Economics
  • Mathematical Economics

Research Interests

  • Applied Microeconomics
    • Primary Fields: Health Economics and Labor Economics
    • Secondary Field: Applied Econometrics 

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Dulal, R., & Ghimire, U. (Forthcoming). Did Medicaid expansion help mitigate self-reported health issues among people with chronic health conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic?
  • Dulal, R., Ghimire, S., & Kapri, K. (2024). Caste-ethnicity based disparities in the labor market: Evidence from panel household surveys in Nepal. Pennsylvania Economic Review, 31(2), 78–94.
  • Paulsen, R. J., & Dulal, R. (2023). Health insurance access and the career choices of college graduates with majors in the arts: Evidence from the Affordable Care Act’s dependent coverage expansion. Journal of Cultural Economics, 1–19.
  • Kapri, K. P., Ghimire, S., & Dulal, R. (2023). Public vs. private education and the labor market disparities in Nepal: Evidence from the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The Journal of Developing Areas, 57(3), 263–276.
  • Dulal, R. et al. (2022). Ex-ante moral hazard: Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System dataset. Journal of Development Innovations, 6(1), 1–15.
  • Gori, D., Dulal, R., Hernandez-Boussard, T., et al. (2018). The use of prostate cancer quality measures in literature: A structured review. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, 000, 1–10.
  • Dulal, R. (2017). Technical efficiency of nursing homes: Do five-star quality ratings matter? Health Care Management Science, 1–8.
  • Hernandez-Boussard, T., Kourdis, P., Dulal, R., Ferrari, M., Henry, S., Seto, T., McDonald, K., Blayney, D. W., & Brooks, J. D. (2017). A natural language processing algorithm to measure the quality of prostate cancer care. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 35(8_suppl), 232–232. (ASCO conference abstract)
  • Dulal, R. (2016). Cost efficiency of nursing homes: Do five-star quality ratings matter? Health Care Management Science, 20(3), 316–325.
  • Dulal, H. B., Dulal, R., & Yadav, P. K. (2015). Delivering green economy in Asia: The role of fiscal instruments. Futures, 73, 61–77.
  • Dulal, R. (2012). Countervailing conflict interventions as a (potentially preventable) Prisoner's Dilemma outcome. The Southern Business and Economic Journal, 35(1), 1–10.