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

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
Vikram, Kriti, Feinian Chen and Sonalde Desai. 2018. “Mothers' work patterns and Children's cognitive achievement: Evidence from the India Human Development survey” Social Science Research, 72:207-224. Vikram Chen and Desai 2018 maternal employment.pdf247.19 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
Chen, Feinian, Luoman Bao, Zhiyong Lin, Zachary Zimmer, Socorro Gultiano, and Judith B. Borja. 2017. “Double Burden for Women in Mid- and Later Life: Evidence from Time-Use Profiles in Cebu, the Philippines.” Aging & Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/S014
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.
Lin, Zhiyong and Xiaomei Pei. 2016. “Intergenerational Exchange of Resources and Elderly Support in Rural China.” International Journal of Aging and Human Development 83(2):108–27.http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0091415016647728
Myroniuk, Tylor, Reeve Vanneman and Sonalde Desai. 2017. "Getting a Child Through Secondary School and To College in India: The Role of Household Social Capital," Sociology of Development, 3(1): 24-46.
Myroniuk, Tylor, Reeve Vanneman and Sonalde Desai. 2017. “Getting a Child Through Secondary School and To College in India: The Role of Household Social Capital,” Sociology of Development, 3(1): 24-46.
Pei, Xiaomei, Hao Luo, Zhiyong Lin, Norah Keating, and Janet Fast. 2017. “The Impact of Eldercare on Adult Children’s Health and Employment in Transitional China.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10823-017
Shattuck, Rachael M. 2017. "Does It Matter What She Wants? The Role of Individual Preferences Against Unmarried Motherhood in Young Women’s Likelihood of a Nonmarital First Birth."Demography 54:1451-1475. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs13524-017-0586-y.pdf
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.
Villarreal, Andrés. Forthcoming “The Education-Occupation Mismatch of International Emigrants and Return Migrants in Mexico, 2005-2012.” Demography.
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