Papers
and Publications:
● Can patient self-management
explain the health gradient? Goldman and Smith's “Can patient
self-management help explain the SES health gradient?” (2002) revisited, Social Science and Medicine, 70(6), 802-812, March 2010 [PDF]
● Does Parental Education Protect
Child Health? Some Evidence from Rural Udaipur, Invited Article for
“Econophysics & Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative
Techniques” edited by Banasri Basu, Bikas K. Chakrabarti, Satya R.
Chakravarty, and Kausik Gangopadhyay, Springer, December 2009
● Is Socioeconomic Status
Protective of Health? Some Evidence from Rural Udaipur, Invited Article for
“Poverty, Health and Development,” edited by Sujit K. Paul, Commonwealth
Publishers, New Delhi, 2009
● Dowry and Bride Price, Invited
Article for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd
Edition, February 2007 [PDF]
● Is the Indian Middle Class
Growing? Some Evidence from NSS 1999-2005, Working Paper, August 2008
● Who are the Indian Middle Class?
A Mixture Model of Class Membership Based on Durables Ownership, Working
Paper, July 2007 [PDF]
● Population
Dynamics and Marriage Payments: An Analysis of the Long-Run Equilibrium in India,
Working Paper, July 2006 [PDF]
(Formerly “Population Growth and Rising Dowries:
The Long-Run Mechanism of a Marriage Squeeze”)
→ Appendices [PDF]
● Can Population Growth Impact
Marriage Payments? Theory and the Indian Evidence, Working Paper, July 2006
[PDF]
(Formerly “Can Population Growth Cause Dowry
Inflation? Theory and the Indian Evidence”)