Dr. Asankha Pallegedara

Profile

Academic position	Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fields	Economic Policy, Applied Economics
Keywords	Health Policy, Sri Lanka, health economics, out-of-pocket health expenditure, development economics
Honours and awards	2016: Georg Forster Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship 2010: Japanese Government (MEXT) Doctoral Scholarship 2001: Japanese Government (MEXT) Undergraduate Scholarship

Current contact address

Country	Sri Lanka
City	Kuliyapitiya
Institution	Wayamba University of Sri Lanka
Institute	Department of Industrial Management

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Michael Grimm	Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Passau, Passau
Start of initial sponsorship	01/03/2016

Programme(s)

2015	Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2018	Asankha Pallegedara: Impacts of chronic non-communicable diseases on households out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures in Sri Lanka. In: International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2018, 1-19
2018	Asankha Pallegedara, Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb: Patterns and determinants of private tutoring: The case of Bangladesh households. In: International Journal of Educational Development, 2018, 43-50
2017	Asankha Pallegedara, Michael Grimm: Demand for private healthcare in a universal public healthcare system: empirical evidence from Sri Lanka. In: Health Policy and Planning, 2017, 1267-1284