How I finished my PhD dissertation in 12 months:

In this new piece, we are putting forward ‘The Economic-Adjusted Age Dependency Ratio in India: A New Measure for Understanding Economic Burden of Aging’. Varsha Rani International Institute for Population Sciences

Once you got admission into a PhD program, your life is sorted. Just kidding. The academic job market is hell, the sector is hyper-competitive, and lots of employment is precarious. But for now: Good luck with your applications!!

After years of waiting time, finally, this report is out. Looking forward to your comments. Thanks to Harchand Ram, Shalem Balla, Shubhra Kriti, Neha Jain, and Somya Arora for their Assistance. publications.unescwa.org/2023/eeccm/ind…

I'm attending Global fertility decline: disaster or opportunity?. Join me on February 19. linkedin.com/events/globalf…

Thank you, Venkatesh, for tracing the evolution of the concept of food security through the work of MSS

Despite the reduction in son preference by half since the early 1990s, it has failed to exert a concomitant influence on the Child Sex Ratios. This contradiction forms the premise of our attempts to validate measure of son preference. Read from here: epw.in/journal/2024/7…

What do we know about the impact of health and of health systems on poverty? sciencedirect.com/science/articl… O’Donnell provides an overview.

Does improving transport infra improve women's labor force participation in Urban India? It depends!, particularly on the gender norms.Our new paper explore this. Thanks Sonalde Desai shorturl.at/7WJxG IHDS Corner NCAER Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) Wiley #femalelaborforce

First-generation college students face unique aspirations and challenges in their career. In this working paper, Gopinath Annadurai and I find significant positive impact of a targeted scholarship program on first-generation students' education and longer-term labor market outcomes.

🔥Join us for a brand-new virtual Series: YSI Demographic Economics Series! 🔥 First session on 7th August with Prof. K S James discussing on India’s Demographic Dividend and Equity Concerns. Register ysiproject.org/demo Young Scholars Initiative Arun Balachandran (@arunabc3.bsky.social) Bikram #demography

The IIPS Cultural Coordinator and the student volunteer group are delighted to invite you to our upcoming cultural program on the occasion of IIPS Foundation Day, scheduled to take place on 14th August 2024 at 4.30 pm on the 3rd floor, Library building.

YSI Demographic Economics Series! First session on 7th August with Prof K.S. James - India’s Demographic Dividend and Equity Concerns | Young Scholars Initiative Institute for New Economic Thinking | Bikram Barman Arun Balachandran (@arunabc3.bsky.social) | Tulane University youtube.com/watch?v=JMHTVv…

New publication with Bernt Bratsberg,Kristine B Walhovd, Ole Rogeberg & Anders Martin Fjell on the role of education in dementia prevention pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Migration should be a choice not a compulsion then only it yields better outcomes. Migration without a "plan, preparedness and skill building and empowerment of migrants" both at the origin and destination is a disaster. -Personal View-

New publication — The Low Fertility Fallacy | Foreign Affairs foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 We show that India's PDS program reduced child stunting Forthcoming at AEJ:Applied : aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Today on VoxDev, Prof. Aditya Shrinivas outlines findings from his latest co-authored research, soon to be published in the 'American Economic Journal: Applied Economics', which examines the world's largest food transfer programme based in India. 🔗Here: voxdev.org/topic/health/w…

Our next brownbag seminar of the semester is Feb 12, 12pm, w/ Dr. Avi Feller Goldman School of Public Policy , who will give a talk on "The Impact of US Abortion Bans on Fertility and Infant Mortality.” In person, 310 Social Sciences (& zoom). All are welcome; join us.