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Sonalde Desai

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PhD Sociology Delhi University
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According to Wikipedia, Sonalde Desai is a sociologist and demographer. She is a Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park and a professor at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, where she serves as the first direction of the National Data Innovation Centre. She is the principal investigator for the India Human Development Survey, a nationwide panel data survey or more than 40,000 households in more than 2,000 villages and urban neighborhoods. In 2022, she served as president of the Population Association of America. In 2023 she was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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Sonalde Desai's Published Works

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Maternal education and child health: Is there a strong causal relationship? (1998) (635)
Women's Employment During Pregnancy and After the First Birth: Occupational Characteristics and Work Commitment (1991) (270)
Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transition (2010) (269)
Changing educational inequalities in india in the context of affirmative action (2008) (265)
Gender scripts and age at marriage in India (2010) (260)
Linkages between maternal education and childhood immunization in India. (2012) (230)
Maternal Employment and Changes in Family Dynamics: The Social Context of Women's Work in Rural South India (1994) (213)
Caste in 21st Century India: Competing Narratives. (2012) (207)
Children at Risk: The Role of Family Structure in Latin America and West Africa (1992) (171)
Mother or Market? Effects of Maternal Employment on the Intellectual Ability of 4-Year-Old Children (1989) (160)
Negotiated identities: Male migration and left-behind wives in India (2008) (147)
Private Schooling in India: A New Educational Landscape (2008) (141)
Children's living arrangements in developing countries (1992) (134)
When Are Children from Large Families Disadvantaged? Evidence from Cross-National Analyses (1995) (131)
Wedding Celebrations as Conspicuous Consumption (2004) (110)
Why are educated women less likely to be employed in India? Testing competing hypotheses (2003) (92)
Escaping and Falling into Poverty in India Today. (2017) (86)
Womens decisionmaking and child health: familial and social hierarchies. (2005) (82)
Health Care in Asia: A Comparative Study of Cost and Financing. (1993) (77)
INDIAN PARADOX: RISING EDUCATION, DECLINING WOMENS' EMPLOYMENT. (2018) (76)
Gender and Population in the Adjustment of African Economies: Planning for Change (1994) (76)
Signaling Social Status in Rural India (2016) (72)
Contraception and Reproduction: Health Consequences for Women and Children in the Developing World. (1990) (71)
Women's Employment During Pregnancy and After the First Birth (1991) (70)
Families in Southeast and South Asia (2018) (69)
Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: A Catalyst for Rural Transformation (2015) (53)
Gender inequalities and demographic behavior. (2016) (48)
Female-Headed Households (1998) (48)
Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India (2014) (45)
The Paradox of Declining Female Work Participation in an Era of Economic Growth (2019) (40)
Gender inequalities and household fuel choice in India (2020) (40)
Mother Or Market? Effects Of Maternal Employment On Cognitive Development Of Four-Year-Old Children (1988) (39)
After the Dividend: Caring for a Greying India. (2015) (35)
Enhancing Nutrition Security via India's National Food Security Act: Using an Axe instead of a Scalpel? (2015) (33)
The Other Half of the Demographic Dividend. (2010) (33)
MATERNAL EDUCATION AND CHILD HEALTH: A FEMINIST DILEMMA (2000) (32)
Work patterns in rural Pakistan: intersections between gender family and class. (1996) (28)
Segmented Schooling: Inequalities in Primary Education in India (2008) (26)
Hopes, dreams and anxieties: India's one-child families (2016) (26)
The Impact of Transportation Infrastructure on Women's Employment in India (2019) (25)
Precarity in a Time of Uncertainty: Gendered Employment Patterns during the Covid-19 Lockdown in India (2021) (24)
Gender Inequalities and Demographic Behavior: India (1994) (23)
MATERNAL EDUCATION AND CHILD (2007) (22)
MATERNAL EDUCATION AND CHILD (2007) (22)
Social Networks in India: Caste, Tribe, and Religious Variations (2006) (20)
Structured Inequalities—Factors Associated with Spatial Disparities in Maternity Care in India (2010) (18)
Middle Class Dreams: India's One-Child Families (2012) (17)
Designing programs to improve diets for maternal and child health: estimating costs and potential dietary impacts of nutrition-sensitive programs in Ethiopia, Nigeria, and India (2018) (15)
Mothers' work patterns and Children's cognitive achievement: Evidence from the India Human Development survey. (2018) (14)
Lack of access to clean fuel and piped water and children’s educational outcomes in rural India (2021) (14)
Getting a Child Through Secondary School and To College in India: The Role of Household Social Capital. (2017) (13)
Determinants of private healthcare utilisation and expenditure patterns in India (2014) (13)
The Emergence of Educational Hypogamy in India (2020) (13)
Economic Status and Adult Mortality in India: Is the Relationship Sensitive to Choice of Indicators? (2018) (12)
Maternal Employment During Infancy: An Analysis of “Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)” 1 (1991) (11)
Is Employment Driving India's Growth Surge? (2004) (11)
Gender Trouble Makers: Education and Empowerment in Nepal (2008) (9)
The Home Environment: A Mechanism Through which Maternal Employment Affects Child Development (1990) (9)
Physical versus imagined communities: migration and women’s autonomy in India (2019) (9)
Maternal Education and Child Mortality: Exploring the Pathways of Influence (2010) (8)
Fathers' Migration and Nutritional Status of Children in India: Do the Effects Vary by Community Context? (2020) (8)
Protecting health in dry cities: considerations for policy makers (2020) (7)
Village Transportation Infrastructure and Women ’ s Non-agricultural Employment in India : The Conditioning Role of Community Gender Context (2017) (7)
Gender differences in child survival in India: What do we know? (2005) (7)
In the Margins: Social Inequality in Children's Educational Outcomes in India (2005) (6)
Caste and Census: A Forward Looking Strategy (2010) (5)
Male out-migration and the health of left-behind wives in India: The roles of remittances, household responsibilities, and autonomy (2021) (5)
Undernutrition and Public Policy in India : Investing in the future (2015) (4)
Commentary : Recent evidence shows slow improvement in undernutrition in India (2015) (3)
| Undernutrition and Public Policy in India | Taylor & Francis Group (2015) (3)
Public distribution system : more people rely on the PDS than ever before (2015) (3)
Doing Gender: Caste and Gender in Action in India (2006) (2)
Social Inequalities in Education (2016) (2)
Demographic deposit, dividend and debt (2015) (2)
IsabelWilkersonCaste: The Origins of Our DiscontentsRandom House, 2020. 496 p. $32.00 (2021) (1)
Are Independent Retailers a Viable Distribution Channel for Local Foods? Evidence from Vermont (2014) (1)
AnneCase and AngusDeaton, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. 312 p. $27.95 (2020) (1)
Adult Mortality in India : The Health – Wealth Nexus (2016) (1)
Obama, Indian Americans and a Conversation about Race (2008) (0)
Demographic Contributions to Policymaking during the Pandemic (2021) (0)
The Impact of Covid-19 on Household Consumption Expenditure in India (2022) (0)
Regional Fertility Differences in India (2020) (0)
Investing in the Future (2015) (0)
An investigation into the preparation and tryout of a package of ELT materials to develop communicative competence at the FYBSC level (2002) (0)
TimDysonA Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present DayOxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 336 p. $50.00 (2019) (0)
Muslim Women at the Intersection of Gender and Communal Politics in India (2009) (0)
AnkushAgarwal and VikasKumarNumbers in India's Periphery: The Political Economy of Government StatisticsCambridge University Press, 2020, 371 p., $120.00 (2021) (0)
Carole R. McCann Figuring the Population Bomb: Gender and Demography in the Mid-Twentieth Century Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2016. 328 p. $90.00; $30.00 (pbk.). (2017) (0)
Book Review: Ravinder Kaur, ed. 2016. Too Many Men, Too Few Women: Social Consequences of Gender Imbalance in India and China (2018) (0)
Role of High-Risk Occupations in the Spread of (2016) (0)
Who Participates in MGNREGA? Analyses from Longitudinal Data (2017) (0)
JasonBeckfieldPolitical Sociology and The People's HealthNew York: Oxford University Press, 2018. 173 p. $29.95 (hardcover) (2019) (0)
Does participation in self-help groups empower Indian women? (2018) (0)
Beyond the End of Hypergamy: Increase in Educational Hypogamy in India (2018) (0)
Womens employment and child welfare: the social context of womens work in rural South India. (1992) (0)
Make it the Indian way : Why the country must adapt to additive technologies (2018) (0)
Demographic deposit, dividend and debt (2015) (0)
Frederick F.Wherry, Kristin S.Seefeldt, and AnthonyAlvarezCredit Where It's DueNew York: Russell Sage, 2019. 159 p. (2019) (0)
Book Review (1962) (0)
Explaining Gender Differences in Health and Mortality (2016) (0)
Aligning household decision-making with work and education: A comparative analysis of women’s empowerment (2023) (0)
A Special Newsletter for SPU Alumni (2005) (0)
Growing Inequalities in India (2014) (0)
The emergence of the one-child family in India]L’émergence de l’enfant unique en Inde (2019) (0)
Are Supply-Side Strategies Enough in India?@@@Doing the Needful: The Dilemma of India's Population Policy. (1993) (0)
The paradox of declining fertility and declining contraceptive use in India: An artefact of survey design? (2022) (0)
Womens labor force participation before and after their first birth: the effect of occupational characteristics and work commitment. (1989) (0)
Economic Status and Adult Mortality in India (2016) (0)
NeerajKaushal, Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement, Columbia University Press, 2019. 220 p. $30.00 (paper) (2020) (0)

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