Working Paper | NCAER WP-193
India’s occupational transformation: A tale of two escalators 
Desai Sonalde and Choudhuri Pallavi
2026

Journal | Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
Does Respondent Gender Matter to the Collection of Household Consumption and Expenditure Data in India? (Forthcoming)
Sharma Sharan, Choudhuri Pallavi, and Desai Soanlde
2026

Journal | Demographic Research
Changes in the Household Expenditure Basket during COVID-19 in India.
Choudhuri Pallavi and Desai Sonalde
2026

Journal | India Policy Forum 2024
Rethinking Social Safety Nets in a Changing Society: Evidence from the India Human Development Survey
Sonalde Desai|  Debasis Barik | Pallavi Choudhuri | Bijay Chouhan | Om Prakash Sharma | Sharan Sharma and Dinesh Kumar Tiwari
2025

Journal | Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research
Special Issue: India in Transition: Insights from India Human Development Survey (2004–2012)
Debasis Barik | Pallavi Choudhuri | Ruchi Jain and Sonalde Desai (Guest Editors)
2025

Journal | Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research
Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social Protection in the Wake of the Pandemic in India.
Pallavi Choudhuri | Santanu Pramanik | Sonalde Desai
2023

Journal | World Development
Lack of Access to Clean Fuel and Piped Water and Children’s Educational Outcomes in Rural India
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai
2021

Journal | Journal of Cleaner Production
Gender inequalities and household fuel choice in India, Journal of Cleaner Production
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai
2020

Measurement Brief | NCAER National Data Innovation Centre
Urban Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey, Rounds 1 and 2
Pallavi Choudhuri | Santanu Pramanik | Sonalde Desai
2020

Report | NCAER
Skilling India – No Time To Lose
Bornali Bhandari | Pallavi Choudhuri | Mousumi Das | Saurabh Bandyopadhyay | Ajaya Kumar Sahu, et al…
October 2018

Journal | Economic & Political Weekly
Is Disinvestment of Air India Appropriate?, Economic and Political Weekly
Pallavi Choudhuri | R. Venkatesan
2017

Report | NCAER
Building Synergies: Matching Business Reforms to Improved ‘Ease of Doing Business’.
Anushree Sinha | Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal | Pallavi Choudhuri | K Subbaraje Urs, et al
April 2017

Report | NCAER
The NCAER State Investment Potential Index (N-SIPI).
Indira Iyer | Poonam Munjal | Pallavi Choudhuri | Asrar Alam | K Subbaraje Urs, et al
March 2016

Book Chapter | India’s occupational transformation: A tale of two escalators.
The Indian economy: Navigating a global turning point.
Simon & Schuster
In K. Basu, S. Desai, A. Deshpande, & N. Singh (Eds.),
2026

BOOK | Routledge
India’s Social and Economic Transformation in 21st Century
Pallavi Choudhuri, Sonalde Desai, Amaresh Dubey (Eds.)
2023

Opinion | The Hindu Business Line
Fall and rise in women’s work participation
Sonalde Desai and Pallavi Choudhuri
March 8, 2024

OPINION | The Economic Times
Mind the gender gap
Pallavi Choudhuri
February 23, 2023

OPINION | The Hindu
Measuring women’s work participation: why it is important to get it right
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai
February 11, 2023

OPINION | Ideas for India
Urban exclusion: Rethinking social protection in India in the wake of Covid-19
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai | Santanu Pramanik
June 13, 2022

OPINION | The Indian Express
Why clean air and potable water has impact on education
Pallavi Choudhuri
June 7, 2021

Opinion | The Indian Express
A social registry linking Aadhaar to residence info can target aid to the vulnerable during a pandemic.
Pallavi Choudhuri | Sonalde Desai
November 28, 2020

• Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2026, (St. Louis, MO)
• Delivered lecture on Quantitative Methods in Social Science Research at the National Workshop on Quantitative Methods in Social Science Research, organized by Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), March 12, 2026 (invited).
• Presenter, 20th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, hosted by ISI-Delhi, December 2025, New Delhi
• Presenter, International Population Conference 2025 (IUSSP), Brisbane, Australia, July 2025
• Chair, “Gender and Child Nutrition” International Population Conference 2025 (IUSSP).
• Presenter, technical presentation on “Indian Human Development Survey” at the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS). Chennai, March 19, 2025

• Panelist, “Longitudinal Surveys in India: Lessons and Challenges” at the “National Workshop on Longitudinal Surveys in India: Lessons and Challenges” hosted by the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS). Chennai, March 18, 2025
• Panelist, “The role of civic data initiatives in strengthening India’s data ecosystem” at the DATASCAPE hosted by Centre for Economic Data & Analysis (CEDA), Ashoka University, November 29, 2024, IHC, New Delhi
• Panelist, Niti-Aayog State Workshop Series on “Leveraging State Data Ecosystems for State and District-Level Policy and Planning”, Lucknow, November 2023
• Chair, session on “Gender Inequality in Low and Middle Income Countries” at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2023, (New Orleans, LA)
• Attended meetings of the Working Group for Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES), MOSPI, New Delhi (HCES, Working Group member), 2023
• Presenter, 17th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, hosted by ISI-Delhi, December 2022, New Delhi
• Chair, session on “The income pathway: Wages, employment, and transfers” at workshop on “Affordability of Healthy Diets in South Asia: Challenges and Recommendation”, a CGIAR – IFPRI initiative, New Delhi, December 2022.
• Presenter, 5th IZA Labor Statistics Workshop, July 2022 (scheduled online)
• Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2022, (Atlanta, GA)
• Presenter, 3rd Economics Conference, Ahmedabad University, 2022
• Presenter, the 16th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, hosted by ISI-Delhi, December 2021 (online)
• Presenter, 2021 International Population Conference, hosted by IUSSP, December 2021 (online)
• Presenter, Invited Seminar hosted jointly by the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) and Center for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics (DSE), 19 August 2021, New Delhi (online)
• Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, May 2021, (online)
• Commentator, Webinar on Time Use data and Its Uses, WEDGE of University of Maryland and EMERGE of UC San Diego (online)
• Attended 5th meeting of the Sub-Committee 2 of the Standing Committee on Economic Statistics (SCES), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MOSPI), New Delhi, March 2021
• Presenter, 6th International Conference on South Asian Economic Development, February 2021, New Delhi (online)
• Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2020, Washington DC (online)
• Attended meetings of the Working Group for Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES), (MOSPI), New Delhi (HCES, member), 2020
• Presenter, Sustainability and Development Conference at the University of Michigan, October 2019, Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2019, Austin, Texas (poster)
• Participant, Working Group session on Research Agenda at the Gender, Unpaid Work and Care: Towards Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) hosted by ICRW & VVGNL, New Delhi, 8th March 2019
• Attended the All India Workshop of Trainers for NSS 77th Round & Time Use Survey, organised by MOSPI at Guwahati
• Attended Development Matters Roundtable discussion at the Center for Global Development, Washington D. C., USA, June 28, 2018
• Presenter, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018, Denver, Colorado (poster)
• Presentation, NCAER News Skills At Work report at the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, New Delhi, April 19, 2018
• Attended, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, & Learning (MEAL) workshop organized by SDPI – IDRC at UNESCAP, Bangkok, July 2017
• Presenter, “Building Synergies: Matching Business Reforms to Improved Ease of Doing Business”, New Delhi – February 2017, IPE Hyderabad – January, 2017
• Panelist, 7th CII Global Summit on Skill Development, Session: “Enabling Policy: Towards Quality & Inclusion”, Hyderabad, November, 2016
• Presenter, “Skilling India: India’s 3E Challenge of Education, Employability, and Employment”, New Delhi, October 2016.