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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

2 years

1. “What is a household?” A constant debate at each interviewer training. Formal definition of people living under the same roof and eating from the same kitchen for at least 6 of the prior 12 months does not cut it with our interviewers.

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For much of my life, I was a mother of sons; outnumbered by men in my family. Sex-ratio in our family flipped once our son realized he was born with the wrong gender. With Naomi, her spouse Rachel and daughter Leni, it is women 4: men 2 in our family. 💕 you & proud of you Naomi

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Why is Indian Census not being conducted this year, post COVID? As a data geek, I can happily chant we need data. But mainly teachers are on Census duty and India has had one of the longest school closures. What takes priority? Separate pool of enumerators possible?

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1/8 Panic in IHDS war room! Interviewer calls in, “Seema” an unmarried woman of age 47 is to be asked marriage/fertility questions according to the computer program. But single women are not to be asked these questions. What to do?

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Friends of IHDS please circulate. @NCAER is looking for several post-docs, including 1 for IHDS (based in Delhi). Unique opportunity to work with IHDS-3 data as it is being collected.

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1 year

1. Game of Thrones has nothing on the Great Indian Poverty Game (GIPG) this Republic Day. Synopsys seasons 1-3, preview season 4:

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2 years

Many respondents for IHDS-3 (now in field) remember interviewers visiting them in prior round. We send New Year's card with a small calendar to thank respondents for sharing their lives with us. As one interviewer writes, "IHDS KA NEW YEAR CARD BHI 1 GHAR PAR MILA HAI" 👋

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9 months

Just adding to the discussion, an article on Global Hunger Index and nutrition policy I wrote in @IndianExpress . Debates on this flawed index take attention away from very real need to improve nutrition and reduce child mortality

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9 months

In June this year @BBCMoreOrLess got in touch with me about hunger data in India and we looked at the Global Hunger Index for it. As with all of Indian data, the index should be more carefully looked at and needs better reporting. The episode is here

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@rglenner My pet peeve is submitting an article on India and being asked to draw out implications for generalizability to other contexts. No one writing on the US is asked to do this. Indian population=4xUS population ??

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2 years

Computers can't keep up with life! Household roster generated yesterday, respondent gave birth in the night and is eager to participate in the survey now (huh!!). Serious juggad needed to count the newborn. I am going to send a personal gift to this IHDS baby 🎂

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2 years

Love them or hate them, sarees bring together a host of emotions and symbols - from feminism to family to future of textile arts to economics of extinction. Read my take on six yards of fabric that few people can ignore

Six Yards of Fabric — Data 4 Development

Few artefacts bring together feminism, family, art, cultural symbolism and economy the way Indian sarees do

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2 years

Not lost on sci-fi set, this is Atlanta Marriott, home of #PAA2022 ⁦ @PopAssocAmerica ⁩

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1 year

Fascinating paper by ⁦Esha Bhatnagar that documents decline in overwhelming preference for sons that has shaped India’s demographic landscape ⁦ @PopFoundIndia ⁩

Studies in Family Planning | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library

Within the last decade, declining son preference in Asia has given rise to gender-equitable fertility preferences. These include daughter preference, gender indifference, and gender balance. Using...

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1 year

Honored to be included in this list. Riding on the coattails of amazing work by IHDS colleagues @ncaer @socyumd & @ihdscorner

AAAS

@aaas

1 year

📣 News alert 📢 AAAS is thrilled to announce our #AAASFellow class of 2022! Congratulations to every one of the exemplary individuals who received this lifetime honor. Read our full announcement here:

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2 years

5. My latest answer, home is just a place. Family is a matter of love and tradition. “Kutumba” is part of our culture and includes everyone. But survey is about residence or “Nivasa” – certainly lesser than family, but our families are so vast, no? How can we count them all?

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If universities are to remain home to creativity, they must embrace radical thinking and skepticism toward received wisdom and learn to deal with the discomfort they bring. Recent controversies at US campuses show that the space for dissent is rapidly shrinking. @IndianExpress

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2 years

7/8 If you use IHDS data and find inconsistencies across time (and I assure you, you will), please accept that at least some of it come from a world that is messy and full of twist and turns that lives take. Some we will be able to document, some we will only guess at.

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1 year

I don’t get the new fad of treating nightlights data as a measure of economic development. Few factories turn on lights at night but families do. So is it population growth/density or economic growth?

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4 months

Someone just plagiarized this newspaper article in another publication, even copied a mistake I soon corrected. Yo, people noticed the paraphrasing and sent it to me. Not calling you out but don't do it again

Population growth committee: Move beyond Emergency-era fears

The population dialogue in India has been dominated by concerns about population explosion. However, it is time for us to move these fears and learn from the experiences of other countries

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3 years

My latest survey, ask every guard in office buildings in Delhi if their thermal scans found a single case of high fever. None have. Either COVID/flu/fever have vanished from Delhi, or scanners don’t work, or most likely scanning wrists instead of foreheads is ineffective

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2 years

Gaps between conceptual understanding of gender empowerment and its quantitative measurement. How can survey research keep up with the sophistication of feminist thinking? a paper with Feinian Chen, Shilpa Reddy and Amy McLaughlin

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5 months

Success has its own challenge. With TFR of 2 India is now at replacement level fertility but it is hard to change a mindset shaped by fears of population bomb. An op-ed on need for new thinking to deal with new challenges in .⁦ @IndianExpress ⁩

Population growth committee: Move beyond Emergency-era fears - NCAER | Quality . Relevance . Impact

Opinion: Sonalde Desai. The population dialogue in India has been dominated by concerns about population explosion. However, it is time for us to move these fears and learn from the experiences of...

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2 years

1. IHDS Rajasthan women respondents and I became a mutual sympathy society. I felt sympathy for their lack of independence in physical mobility. They openly sympathized that I had no father or brother to protect me. @DasMaitreyi

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2 years

The IHDS team at NCAER is looking for several field coordinators and trainers. If you like data and travelling and want to work with an enthusiastic team, look at the opening. Friends of IHDS, please retweet @ncaer @ihdscorner

Administrative Opening - NCAER | Quality . Relevance . Impact

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5 years

A great paper by Nidhi Sabharwal finds that Indian male academics attend conferences at a far greater rate than women academics. Could this have anything to do with care responsibilities and lack of childcare at conferences?

Hidden social exclusion in Indian academia: gender, caste and conference participation

Conferences are key sites for the development of academic careers; however multiple studies have shown that conferences are exclusionary on the basis of gender and other axes of social disadvantage...

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@SonaldeDesai

2 years

2. What about husband who lives in Bangalore and supports his wife and children in Mysore (3 hours away)? Not a household member, says IHDS definition. But he comes home every weekend and makes all the decisions says the interviewer.

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3 years

Coronamata permitting, IHDS-3 will be in the field soon. Follow the team as we struggle with making sense of India's transformation. @ihdscorner @ncaer @bsosumd

What’s in the Price of an Onion? — Data 4 Development

Reflections during pilot testing of India Human Development Survey - Wave 3 questionnaires in Alwar district.

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7 months

Interesting paper by ⁦ @_ADeshpande ⁩ & Naila Kabeer women more likely to work in households where mothers or mothers-in-law work- aScienceDirect

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3 years

Exciting opportunity for data lovers. NCAER is looking for a STATA Programmer to support analyses of large datasets including upcoming IHDS-3. Join an interesting and engaged group of researchers and support a large community of IHDS data users.

Research Opening - NCAER | Quality . Relevance . Impact

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1 year

Back to school, preparing for IHDS training in Odisha. Not sure my back/knees will survive 3 weeks but luckily everyone else is much younger ⁦ @Daw_Sinha ⁩ ⁦ @ncaer ⁩

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2 years

Reimagining gender data as if women counted. Help us celebrate International Women's Day by talking data with a fabulous panel March 8, 6:30 pm IST. Hybrid event - join us at NCAER in person in New Delhi or via Zoom. Registration at

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9 months

Meet @ncaer National Data Innovation Centre’s first cohort of early career fellows. In this one-year non-residential program we seek to develop a community of data lovers to explore how to collect good data, evaluate existing data & develop an empirically driven research agenda

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2 years

7. And you thought responding to questions from undergraduates was tough?? @bsosumd @socyumd , how does training 500 tough interviewers in a year (each for a 21 day training period) not count for my merit score on teaching?

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“I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false” Hayek.👂Researchers explaining the ping pong of FLFPR in India, doubling of women farmers in 5 yrs is implausible 👇 @the_hindu @pallavi_econ

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Honored to receive Graduate Faculty Mentor of the Year Award @UMDGradSchool . Nothing better than to be known by one’s students. I have had the privilege of working with some amazing ones over the years. Thank you Shriyam Natasha @Neerad_D @saswathinatta @HopeYanxu for nomination.

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3 months

The annual IHDS team dinner #PAA2024 was lovely. If the restaurant had space, we could have easily invited 10 more alumni. Apologies to diners at the neighboring table for our merry crowd. Best of @ihdscorner friendships that outlast research collaborations!

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1 year

Chicken soup for feminist hearts! Celebrating Ela Bhatt on Kamaladevi Chattopadhayay’s birthday. I am owed by the contributions of people on this stage and in this room.

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2 years

Losing Elaben is the end of an era of innocence where we believed truth and justice would win, where selflessness was the norm and sisterhood was celebrated. My heart goes out to Mihirbhai and Reemaben and members of SEWA family.

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2 years

I am excited about finally meeting in person. @PopAssocAmerica staff are working hard to make it as safe as it is possible for all of us. But if your personal health risks or other constraints make it difficult for you to travel to Atlanta, please join #PAA2022 virtually.

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2 years

#PAA2022 will be a fully hybrid meeting allowing you to participate virtually or in-person. Read letter from the co-chairs @SonaldeDesai and @VanHookJenny and ED @ALLdanielle :

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8 months

Amazing difference in how male and female interviewers view fieldwork. For most men it’s a way of making a living while waiting for a better jobs, for women it’s often an adventure. Sharing the excitement of two women interviewers from IHDS.. with gratitude for their hard work

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8 months

Welcome to the 7th Anniversary edition of the IHDS newsletter, which presents the perspective of field surveyors on data collection for the survey. Saluting all our diligent & industrious interviewers! Read the newsletter here:

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1 year

I am always amazed at Indian creativity. Projecting on a wall in Aurangabad training. Minor stains being covered up with white paper. Juggad at its best. No, we can’t afford fancy training facilities!

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2 years

Demographic dividend will be far smaller if women are excluded from the labor force.

The Indian Express

@IndianExpress

2 years

#ExpressOpinion | India in 2023: The challenge and opportunity of being the most populous country, @SonaldeDesai writes

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10 months

How pedestrians are to cross a street with the divider is not clear. But hey this is smart city Indore! I am sure they will figure out how to jump over the divider after dodging traffic using the crosswalk

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10 months

What does women’s agency in marriage decisions mean in India? Who marries and whom do they marry? Authors in this 3rd issue of GenderTalk take a nuanced look at marriage decisions in India using diverse datasets: survey, qualitative interviews and web dating service experiments

NCAER

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10 months

(1/7) The third issue of GenderTalk from @ncaer 's Gender Hub discusses women's agency in marriage choice. Articles from @B_ban20 , Sarah Lamb, Santhya Kg, @diva_dhar , @zylinsoc , & conversation wth @Letstransform .

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5 years

New Bihar Museum in Patna is the most amazing Indian museum I have been to. Old Patna museum’s terrific collection of sculptures + architecturally delightful building. Saw some great lecture notices.

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2 years

Great paper that articulates my unease with the discovery of social norms by economists. Social Norm Change, Behavioural Approaches and the Politics of Knowledge: A Conversation between the Ivory Tower and the Field - Wazir - Development and Change

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1 year

1/9 IHDS Team Debate: Should we make an effort to interview IHDS-1 (2004-5) respondents who we could not interview in IHDS-2 (2011-12)? Statisticians/idealists=Yes. Survey Managers/cynics = No. Here is how the debate goes.

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2 years

8/8 Seema was not interviewed and her interview status was coded as 6007 “Non Interview, other reasons”. I suspect we will end up with many such untold stories hiding under code 6007.

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3 years

#PAA2022 abstracts due today. In my first PAA conference, I knew I had found my intellectual home where I could sip from many disciplinary fountains. Over time @PopAssocAmerica has also become my emotional home. Shout out to graduate students to submit and join the community.

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Call for Papers Now Available #PAA2022

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2 years

6. Answer worked for yesterday’s training in Mysore. But maybe today, the interviewers will come up with the question that stumps me, what about the farmer who sleeps in the field to scare away crop-eating cows but eats at home? How does “one roof-one kitchen” work for him?

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2 years

Babasaheb Ambedkar statue proudly displayed in the entrance of a Gautam family in UP. It is amazing how he continues to serve as an icon for Scheduled Caste families. Imagine being a child growing up looking at him daily!

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5 months

So so well deserved! Congratulations @_ADeshpande on the wonderful work you have been doing and even more importantly, wonderful mentoring you have provided over the years, not just to younger colleagues but to all of us

Ashoka University

@AshokaUniv

5 months

Ashoka University ( @AshokaUniv ) congratulates Professor Ashwini Deshpande ( @_ADeshpande ), Head of the Department, Economics and Professor of Economics for winning the 2023 International Economics Association Fellow Award. The annual fellowship is awarded to 10 economists

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2 years

1/x Parallel training sessions in Lucknow for UP and Bihar interviewers. Diversity in institutions and programs between even these neighboring states is amazing

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@SonaldeDesai

4 years

Result from Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey (DCVTS) show both tremendous support for lockdown (88%) as well as income drops (84% households) and supply shortages (29% households) @ncaer @Santanu_NDIC

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@SonaldeDesai

3 years

Statisticians be weary of the power you wield! READ: Lessons from the death of the ease of doing business index

Lessons from the death of the ease of doing business index

Sonalde Desai writes: The economic consequences and political benefits associated with it encouraged many countries to try and “game” the system by making superficial improvements on indicators being...

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5 years

Everyone is afraid of data. My recent opinion article in The Hindu on controversy surrounding official statistics in India.

Everyone is afraid of data

There needs to be robust infrastructure for official statistics so that governments do not suppress inconvenient truths

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2 years

8. Y’all know that I am just the tweeter-in-chief for the IHDS right? Kudos go to the fabulous team of Dinesh Tiwari, OP Sharma, Manjisth Banerji, Santanu Pramanik, Pallavi Choudhuri, Debasis Barik, Bianca Daw, Shameem Ahmad, Bijay Chouhan, and KS Urs (for Karnataka). +++

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3 years

How do social norms change? Does change come from within or outside? Inspired by @AnitaZaidi @RuthLevine5 @AnitaRajUCSD @ArjanDevDebate @DasMaitreyi Reflections on undoing gender at:

Undoing Gender — Data 4 Development

I have often wondered what made my mother a gender troublemaker? Recent focus on changing gender norms in development discourse seem to assume change will come from the top, but will it? Or will...

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2 years

3. What about brothers who split the ancestral home with grandfather eating at Raju’s home and grandmother eating at Sanju’s home? Where do we count them? How can we split up grandmother and grandfather they live in the same compound?

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3 years

Amidst the grim news, my 92 year old mother-in-law getting her second dose of vaccine in Mumbai, thanks to cousins who made arrangements. Social networks are wonderful and yet make us realize how privileged we are!

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4 years

How are workers in Delhi NCR Region faring after relaxing the lockdown? Results from @ncaer DCVTS-3 suggest that while they are coming back to work, a large proportion have not been able resume. Silver lining -- farmers are relatively unscathed.

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2 years

4. Zohra is at a hostel but comes home for vacation. This is her home, says Ammi. How is hostel her home?

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3 years

A new article on gender differences in employment during COVID lockdown in Delhi NCR region with @Neerad_D @Santanu_NDIC @ncaer Thank you for the rapid response @FeministEcon guest editors @YanaRodgers @N_Kabeer

Precarity in a Time of Uncertainty: Gendered Employment Patterns during the Covid-19 Lockdown in...

India implemented one of the world’s most stringent lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 crisis. This study examines whether the impacts of the lockdown on employment differed by gender in areas s...

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@SonaldeDesai

4 years

@ravinder_IITD and I would love to have you fill out a short survey about changes in household division of labor during the stay-at-home period. It will take about 10 mins. of your time. Please retweet if you can.

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@SonaldeDesai

7 months

No training-of-trainers for us (usual in most Indian surveys). With questionnaires in 11 languages, it was imperative that trainers remain consistent. 🙏 IHDS training team & our junior IHDSers who put up with mom and dad's travels. We will need a kiddie party on completion

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7 months

Congratulations to the IHDS team on completing the training of interviewers in Hyderabad at the Council for Social Development. 17 training sessions lasting 21 days with an average of 5 @ncaer staff members at each training. How many man-days is that?

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2 years

Wow.. based on responses from other data collectors, complicated discussion on the definition of households seem de-rigueur in India. Can anyone comment on what happens in other countries? Do we need an LMIC version of survey methodology?

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5 months

Calling all IHDS users! We are bringing out a special issue of Margin with only IHDS-based papers. Great opportunity for a fast turnaround. Submission deadline May 1. Contact rjain @ncaer .org for more information. Please retweet.

NCAER

@ncaer

5 months

The @ncaer IHDS team invites papers of ~8000 words based on IHDS data for rounds I & II for NCAER’s peer-reviewed journal Margin, co-published with @Sage_Publishing ✅Deadline for submission May 1, 2024 ✅ For more information, contact: rjain @ncaer .org

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1/11 An edited volume “India’s Social and Economic Transformation in the 21st Century” by @pallavi_econ , @SonaldeDesai & Amaresh Dubey has been published by Routledge, using data from rounds I & II of @ncaer 's IHDS Thread below @ihdscorner

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My taxi driver in Seattle had great stories about wonderful medical care in India where his brother from Ethiopia is getting a kidney transplant. He as paying $14000 for it by driving taxi, another brother was donating kidney. Love and care without boundaries! Heartwarming.

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Join us for an exciting discussion exploring the trends in employment during different phases of the pandemic and what the result teach about collecting data during emergencies. Part of @ncaer National Data Innovation Centre DataTalk

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@seemay Umm... don't you need more than one religious group in a country to generate religious hostilities? There can't be any communal rift in Vatican. I will need to read the report to figure out how exactly communal rift is defined.

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@sbikh I wonder what comparison with top 50 graduates from Dhoulapur Highschool in Rajasthan would look like. Does school effect trump grade effect?

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25 days

Friends of IHDS please circulate and encourage your students to apply. Great opportunity to get research experience between MA & Ph.D.

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We have 4 RA positions open, with a chance to: ✔️Work on human development themes— #health #education #gender #mobility & #employment — using & building @ihdscorner data! ✔️Work with Prof @SonaldeDesai , @pallavi_econ , @DebasisBarik25 & others 📎Apply here:

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One of the few papers that has made me truly reflect. This is about race & class in the US. But India may have its equivalent in people taking civil service exams. Can anyone guide me to studies on who succeeds in civil service exams?

Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage | American Journal...

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I guess men have no role in childbearing and their age does not matter 🤣 Seriously, can’t we let people make decisions on whether to have a child and when and just put family friendly policies (e.g. good childcare and public education) in place to support all families?

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Boosting fertility by subsidizing child-bearing for *young* women -

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I am a convert! Only @zoom_us faculty meetings in future I hope. Everyone gets to “speak” via chat box, instant voting and if I tune out and play games on my phone, that is for me to know!

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Stories from fieldwork - In a Nowhere Land: Brickmakers of Uttar Pradesh — Data 4 Development

In a Nowhere Land: Brickmakers of Uttar Pradesh — Data 4 Development

In 45 degree Celcius, migrant brickworkers toil in prosperous Western Uttar Pradesh, falling through the cracks of official enumeration.

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@SonaldeDesai

2 years

Agree. Outstanding papers by young economists. I was also overwhelmed by enthusiasm of IHDS users. IGIDR was the first place in India to use IHDS extensively. Great high as we struggle with a new round of data collection

Kaushik Basu

@kaushikcbasu

2 years

3 days of a terrific Biennial Development Conference at @Igidr_Mumbai . Listening to young economists from all over India present their research I feel optimistic. There’s so much talent in the country. If we don’t take away away their space for dissent, the nation can flourish.

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

3 years

Population and Development Review, one of the most influential demographic journals based @Pop_Council is looking for a new editor. Please spread the word.

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@SonaldeDesai

2 years

#PAA2022 is shaping up to be exciting. 70% of the respondents to the PAA participation survey said they were planning to attend in person. Thank you, @PopAssocAmerica staff, for making great efforts to enhance safety while increasing opportunities for interaction. @VanHookJenny

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

5 years

⁦⁩ Surveys measuring impact of govt programmes have become less reliable. Do respondents lie (junk household surveys) or interviewers lie (better training & supervision, better funding for ⁦ @GoIStats ⁩)? | The Indian Express

Surveys measuring impact of govt programmes have become less reliable

When the benefits of government schemes are actually reaching the intended beneficiaries much more than ever before, the incentive to deny having facilities is at its highest. On the contrary, what...

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

1 year

Many thanks to our Tripura respondents for sharing their lives and tree ripened mangoes. It is a long time since I ate mangoes directly lucked from the trees. It is amazing to see the warmth with which strangers asking nosy questions are greeted.

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

2 months

On this #MotherDay remembering my mother who had a unique ability of being a gender troublemaker. Link to a blog I wrote about her a few years ago.

Undoing Gender — Data 4 Development

I have often wondered what made my mother a gender troublemaker? Recent focus on changing gender norms in development discourse seem to assume change will come from the top, but will it? Or will...

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

3 years

Thanks PAA president Robert Hummer and VP @marcyjcarlson for a fabulous online #PAA2021 . Can’t wait to see people in three rather than two dimension at #PAA2022 . Please send your abstracts and joins us in Atlanta @PopAssocAmerica

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@PopAssocAmerica

3 years

Call for Papers Now Available #PAA2022

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2 years

Interviewer effect explained 1% variance in contraceptive use in NFHS-3 while it increased to 14% in NFHS-4. Sample size increased 6 fold between NFHS-3 and NFHS-4 making it difficult to supervise interviewers adequately.

Santanu Pramanik

@Santanu_LEAD

2 years

Happy to share our paper with @SonaldeDesai investigating the puzzling trend of declining fertility and declining contraceptive use as was seen in NFHS-4. Discuss the role of interview privacy setting and interviewer variability in explaining the anomaly.

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

4 years

In memory of my father and all the fathers (and mothers) who spent their lives trying to make the world a better place for us. Activism is more important today than even before.

Honoring our fathers — Data 4 Development

Father's Day Activism India

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

7 months

Current generation of Indian parent face a squeeze. Investments in children -often a single child- have risen. But fewer children and rising migration means fewer caregivers when they age. Land/propery sales will need to be simplified as these parents try to finance old age.

NCAER

@ncaer

7 months

The demographic crisis of a rapidly ageing society looms before poor Asian nations. India must look beyond a bulging working-age current population to future ageing to deal with the consequences says @ncaer Prof @SonaldeDesai in The Economist article.

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

3 years

When we talk about pandemic to our grandchildren we will talk about isolation, confinement in home and lack of access to public spaces. Let us hope our granddaughters don’t tell us that this is the part of their normal lives.

Make room for women in the new normal

The pandemic may have limited our ability to connect with the external world, but for several Indian women, isolation isn’t unfamiliar or new

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

1 year

Just visited an exciting poster by Shivangi Gharge from ⁦ @IIPSMumbai ⁩. Do mid day meals reduce the likelihood of underweight? Creative longitudinal analysis with IHDS data #PAA2023

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

4 years

If 26% of migrants returning from Delhi to Bihar tested positive for COVID, how much infection there actually is in Delhi? Are we severely underestimating disese prevalence? @TheDailyPioneer

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

3 years

Thank you to @NITIAayog and our advisory panel led by Dr. Pronab Sen for consistently supporting IHDS in generating data for development. Over 1000 publications from IHDS data!!

Keera Allendorf

@KeeraAllendorf

3 years

The 5-year anniversary issue of the IHDS newsletter takes stock of thousands of users, hundreds of papers, and 5 notable policy reports. In 2 videos, @SonaldeDesai and @Ramesh_ChandDR also explain the value of the multi-topic approach. @ihdscorner

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

3 years

It may be time to think about what we want and need to measure before starting out collecting data. Women’s employment is a classic example. Does subsistence farming count as work?

Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

3 years

TOI Edit Page : If data is poor, governance will be poorer: From health to jobs Indian data is crying for a quality upgrade, which is very much within reach

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

4 years

Software of COVID-19 vaccination: how to build on our experiences from polio vaccination programs. My opinion article in ⁦ @EconomicTimes ⁩

View: Addressing the last-mile challenges in Covid-19 vaccine distribution

The establishment of a national expert group for Covid-19 vaccine distribution and Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) to track and manage vaccine stocks and storage is welcome. However,...

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@SonaldeDesai

1 year

Headline-1: India had most maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths in 2020. Headline-2: India maternal mortality ratio down 75% in less than 2 decades. Where do journalists get data, how do they report it? What do readers need to know to interpret headlines? #DataTalk

NCAER

@ncaer

1 year

@ncaer ’s National Data Innovation Centre is hosting a web-based panel discussion with eminent data journalists and leading data producers to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by both sides. 🗓️15th June 2023 🕙 6:30 pm IST Register Here:

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Sonalde Desai

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Harriet B Presser award for excellence in gender & population goes to Jennifer Glass. Like Harriet, Jennifer’s research on gendered nature of work structures and schedules and it’s impact on work family balance is outstanding. Great job @EnglandPaula @PopAssocAmerica #PAA2019

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

7 months

I have always loved Bhupen Hazarika’s poem Ganga Baheti Ho Kyun but just came across his interview describing the origins of the song along with Bengali/Assamese verse. Indian socially conscious poetry is amazing. via @YouTube

Dr. Bhupen Hazarika sings about the Ganga: Ganga Behti Ho Kyun, Dola...

A medley of Bhupen da's finest, including Dil Hum Hum Kare from Rudaali by Kalpana Lajmi, Ganga Behti Ho Kyun, Dola re dola from Devdas.Dr. Bhupen Hazarika w...

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

2 years

Perhaps government officers are not so possessive as defensive about data, making them resistant to sharing. Improving the ability to analyze and sensibly present data may reduce defensiveness. @amitabhk87

Data helps any country meet its developmental goals: G-20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant

He pitched for the dissemination of data by the government in a granular form and said that sharing aggregated information is not good

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

3 years

Concern about high fertility has warped India’s federalism when it comes Lok Sabha seats and revenue sharing between states. With replacement level fertility can we focus on equity in federalist structure? ⁦ @DebasisBarik25 ⁩ ⁦⁦ @ncaer ⁩ ⁦

With India’s demographic transition, come challenges

🔴 Sonalde Desai, Debasis Barik write: The demographic dividend is smaller, but will last longer due to regional variation in the onset of fertility decline. As southern states struggle with the...

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Sonalde Desai

@SonaldeDesai

9 months

I met her as a young and totally raw researcher. She was really gracious in tolerating my missteps and helping me hone my thinking. She epitomized a great era of Indian feminist scholarship where researchers, advocates and policymakers could talk across many dividing lines

Maitreesh Ghatak

@maitreesh

9 months

RIP Prof Nirmala Banerjee. India has lost one of its most eminent social scientists, and we have lost a person who epitomized grace, warmth, and intellectual openness and breadth.

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5. What does it tell us about cross-cultural validity of measures of empowerment? Feinian Chen, Shilpa Reddy, Amy McLaughlin and I try to address this in

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