Coverage and Nonresponse Bias in Telephone Surveys during the COVID-19 Lockdown in India Santanu Pramanik Bijay Chouhan Manjistha Banerji Dinesh Kumar Tiwari Sonalde Desai Reem Ashraf, Neerad Deshmukh

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, telephone surveys have been used extensively for carrying out studies on health knowledge, morbidity, and mortality surveillance. In order to understand the extent of different sources of non-observation errors in telephone surveys, we compare the distributions of units...   Read More

Urban Exclusion: Rethinking Social Protection in the Wake of the Pandemic in India Pallavi Choudhuri Santanu Pramanik Sonalde Desai

The COVID-19 pandemic, and the consequent nationwide lockdown in India that began on March 25, 2020, caused a major disruption in the labour market, leading to the widespread loss of livelihoods and food insecurity. The findings from a telephonic survey of a representative sample of...   Read More

Understanding school attendance: The missing link in “Schooling for All” Manjistha Banerji Kopal Mathur

India is close to its goal of achieving 100 % school enrolment for children in the age group of 5–16 years. However, this does not correspond with universal school attendance. Not all children who are enrolled attend school regularly. Enrolment is, at best only “nominal”...   Read More

Lack of access to clean fuel and piped water and children’s educational outcomes in rural India. Sonalde Desai Pallavi Choudhuri

Investments in clean fuel and piped water are often recommended in developing countries on health grounds. This paper examines an alternative channel, the relationship between piped water and access to liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and children’s educational outcomes. Results based on the second round of...   Read More

Male Out-Migration and the Health of Left-Behind Wives in India: The Roles of Remittances, Household Responsibilities, and Autonomy Sonalde Desai Lei Lei

Social Science & Medicine, Volume 280, July 2021 In developing countries, labor out-migration has led to millions of married couples living apart from each other. Male out-migration brings economic benefits to the families in places of origin, but also leads to profound changes in the...   Read More