Publications related to Demography | SOCY l Sociology Department l University of Maryland

Choudhuri, Pallavi and Sonalde Desai. 2021. “Lack of Access to Clean Fuel and Piped Water and Children's Educational Outcomes in Rural India,” World Development, 265. Published online May 2021. Choudhuri and Desai 2021 World Development.pdf1.18 MB
Lei, Lei and Sonalde Desai. 2021. “Male Out-Migration and the Health of Left-Behind Wives in India: The Roles of Remittances, Household Responsibilities, and Autonomy,” Social Science and Medicine, 280, published online May 2021. Lei and Desai 2021 Husband's Migration and Wife's Health.pdf501.12 KB
Ke, Shen, H. Brin Xu, Omkar Joshi and Feinian Chen. 2021. Couple Similarity and Life Satisfaction: A Study of Young Couples in Shanghai of Mainland Chinain Chinese Families: Tradition, Modernization and Change (eds. by Man Yee Kan and Sampson Lee-Blair), Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Volume 16, 107–126 (Forthcoming)
sai, Sonalde, Neerad Deshmukh and Santanu Pramanik. 2021.” Precarity in a Time of Uncertainty: Gendered Employment Patterns during the Lockdown in India,” Feminist Economics, 27:1-2, 152-172. Desai Deshmukh and Pramanik 2021 Feminist Economics.pdf536.92 KB
Shen, K., Xu, H.B., Joshi, O. and Chen, F. (2021), "Couple Similarity and Life Satisfaction: A Study of Young Couples in Shanghai of Mainland China", Kan, M.-Y. and Blair, S.L. (Ed.) Chinese Families: Tradition, Modernisation, and Change (Contemporary PerPerspectives in Family Research, Vol. 16), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 107-126. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1530-353520210000016006 Shen Xu Joshi and Chen 2021_Couple Similarlity and Life Satisfaction_CPFR.pdf1.04 MB
Choudhuri, Pallavi and Sonalde Desai. 2020. “Gender Inequalities and Household Fuel Choice in India” Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 265. Online on April 20, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121487 Choudhuri and Desai 2020 fuel choice.pdf771.58 KB
Chatterjee, Esha and Sonalde Desai. Forthcoming. “Physical versus Imagined Communities: Migration and Women’s Autonomy in India.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Lei, Lei, Sonalde Desai and Reeve Vanneman. Forthcoming. “Village Transportation Infrastructure and Women’s Non-agricultural Employment in India: The Conditioning Role of Community Gender Context.” Feminist Economics.
Thorat, Amit and Omkar Joshi. 2020. The Continuing Practice of Untouchability in India: Patterns and Mitigating Influences, Economic and Political Weekly, 55(2): 36-45. Thorat and Joshi 2019_The Continuning Practice of Untouchability in India.pdf492.74 KB
Yeung, Wei-Jun Jean, Sonalde Desai and Gavin Jones. 2018. “Families in Southeast and South Asia.” Annual Review of Sociology, 44:469-495. Yeung.pdf599.34 KB
Chatterjee, Esha, Reeve Vanneman and Sonalde Desai. 2018. “Indian paradox: Rising education, declining womens’ employment.” Demographic Research, 38: 856-875 Chatterjee et al. 2018 Demographic Research Women's Employment.pdf672.86 KB
Barik, Debasis, Sonalde Desai and Reeve Vanneman. 2018. "Economic Status and Adult Mortality in India: Is the Relationship Sensitive to Choice of Indicators?" World Development. 103:176-187. Barik et al. 2018 World Development.pdf707 KB
Das Gupta, Monica. 2017. Return of the Missing Daughters. Scientific American p. 80-81. das_gupta_scientific_american.pdf1.7 MB
Desai, Sonalde. 2017. “Doing Gender Vs. Doing Modernity,” in Bhatia, Manjeet (Ed.) Locating Gender in the New Middle Class in India, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
Joshi, Omkar, Sonalde Desai, Reeve Vanneman and Amaresh Dubey. 2017. "Who participates in MGNREGA?" Review of Development and Change, 22(1): 108-127.
Thorat, Amit, Reeve Vanneman, Sonalde Desai and Amaresh Dubey. 2017. "Escaping and Falling into Poverty in India Today," World Development, 93:413-426.
Thorat, Amit, Reeve Vanneman, Sonalde Desai and Amaresh Dubey. 2017. “Escaping and Falling into Poverty in India Today,” World Development, 93:413-426.
Desai, Sonalde, Lawrence Haddad, Deepta Chopra and Amit Thorat (Editors). 2016. Investing in the Future: Public Policy Opportunities to End Undernutrition in India. London: Routledge.
Desai, Sonalde. 2016. “Demographic Deposit, Dividend and Debt,” Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 58(2):217-232. Published online, May 2016. DOI 10.1007/s41027-016-0020-9.
Barik, Debasis, Tushar Agarwal and Sonalde Desai. 2015. “After the Dividend: Caring for a Greying India,” Economic and Political Weekly, 50(24): 108-112. Barik agarwal and desai 2015 after the dividend.pdf103.3 KB
Desai, Sonalde and Reeve Vanneman. 2015. “Enhancing Nutrition Security via India’s National Food Security Act: Using an axe instead of a scalpel?” India Policy Forum Vol. 11. Shah, Shekhar, Arvind Panagariya and Subir Gokarn (Eds.) New Delhi: Sage.
Desai, Sonalde and Gheda Temsah. 2014. “Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family and Communalized Politics in India” Demography, 51(6) 2307-2332. Desai and Temsah 2014 demography.pdf537.71 KB