[2] Bhargava received his Ph.D. in econometrics from the London School of Economics under the supervision of John Denis Sargan in 1982.

His thesis (The Theory of the Durbin–Watson Statistic with special reference to the Specification of Models in Levels as against in Differences) led to many tests for unit roots that were used in co-integration analyses.

[4] His academic publications demonstrate the usefulness of rigorous econometric and statistical methods in addressing issues of under-nutrition and poor child health in developing countries, as well as obesity in developed countries.

[1] A collection of his works has been reprinted in a separate volume in 2006 entitled "Econometrics, statistics and computational approaches in food and health sciences".

[3] A monograph entitled "Food, economics, and health" was published in 2008 [4] and was reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association with the commendation that "Alok Bhargava is a pioneer in efforts to break down the existing firewalls between the biomedical and social sciences and between the health profession and the food systems (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/186008).