Food Environments, Food Security, and Household Food Availability of Circular Migrant Families: A Mixed-Methods Study Among Brick Kiln Laborers in Bihar, India Reshma Roshania Amy Webb-Girard, Aritra Das, Rakesh Giri, G. Sai Mala, Sridhar Srikantiah, Melissa F. Young, Tanmay Mahapatra, Usha Ramakrishna

Background: Circular migration is the dominant pattern of movement in India and is a livelihood strategy used by many food insecure rural households. Repeated shifts in food environments have important implications on household food security and dietary patterns but have not been studied. Objective: To explore differences...   Read More

The paradox of declining fertility and declining contraceptive use in India: An artefact of survey design? Sonalde Desai Santanu Pramanik Bijay Chouhan

National Family Health Survey round 4 of 2015–2016 (IIPS & ICF, 2017) bring important data for planning and policy evaluation but they also present some puzzles. Total fertility rate declined substantially between 2005-06 when NFHS-3 (IIPS & Macro International, 2007) was conducted and 2015-16 from 2.68 (95%...   Read More

Measuring Women’s Empowerment in the Global South Sonalde Desai Feinian Chen, Shilpa Reddy, Amy McLaughlin

Over the past two decades, we have seen an explosion in research on the topic of women’s empowerment and its related dimensions, yet there remains much to be done in terms of clarifying conceptual pathways and best practices in measurement. This review traces the intellectual...   Read More

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