publications
The association between cesarean section delivery and breastfeeding in Odisha, India: A mother fixed effects analysis. 2024. PLoS ONE. with Smita, Nathan Franz, and Diane Coffey.
Understanding high mortality among private facility births in rural Uttar Pradesh. 2023. Economic & Political Weekly. with Nikhil Srivastava, Lovey Pant, Aditi Priya
Mothers’ Social Status and Children's Health: Evidence from Joint Households in Rural India. 2023. Demography. with Reetika Khera & Dean Spears.
Endogenous inclusion in the Demographic and Health Survey anthropometric sample: Implications for studying height within households. (2022) Journal of Development Economics. with Dean Spears and Jere Behrman.
Neonatal death in India: Birth order in a context of maternal undernutrition. (2021). The Economic Journal. with Dean Spears.
Revisting Open Defecation: Evidence from a Panel Study in 2014-2018. (2020) Economic & Political Weekly. with Aashish Gupta, Nazar Khalid, Devashish Deshpande, Payal Hathi, Sangita Vyas, Dean Spears, and Nikhil Srivastav.
Measurement of population mental health: Evidence from a mobile phone survey in India. (2021) Health Policy and Planning. with Payal Hathi, Amit Thorat, and Nazar Khalid.
When women eat last: Discrimination at home and women's mental health. (2021) PLoS ONE. with Payal Hathi, Amit Thorat, and Nazar Khalid.
Persisting Prejudice: Measuring Attitudes and Outcomes by Caste and Gender. (2020) CASTE / A Global Journal on Social Exclusion. with Amit Thorat, Nazar Khalid, Nikhil Shrivastav, Payal Hathi, and Dean Spears.
Assessing high-profile public messaging for sanitation behaviour change: Evidence from a mobile phone survey in India (2020) Waterlines. with Dean Spears and Payal Hathi.
Revisiting open defecation: Evidence from a panel survey in rural north India, 2014-2018. (2020) Economic & Political Weekly. with Aashish Gupta, Nazar Khalid, Devashish Deshpande, Payal Hathi, Avani Kapur, Nikhil Srivastav, Sangita Vyas, and Dean Spears.
Caste, religion, and mental health in India. (2020) Population Research & Policy Review. with Aashish Gupta.
Persistence of solid fuel use despite increases in LPG ownership: New survey evidence from rural north India. (2020) Economic & Political Weekly. with Aashish Gupta, Sangita Vyas, Payal Hathi, Nazar Khalid, Nikhil Srivastav, and Dean Spears.
Assessing public awareness and use of medical abortion via mobile phone survey in India. (2019). Contraception. with Kathleen Broussard and Payal Hathi.
Measuring open defecation in India using survey questions: Evidence from a randomized survey experiment. (2019) BMJ Open. with Nikhil Srivastav, Sangita Vyas, Divya Mary, Diane Coffey, Dean Spears, Neeta Goel, Shaon Lahiri, Anmol Narain, Sujatha Srinivasan, Ajaykumar Tannirkulam and Radu Ban.
The consequences of social inequality for the health and development of India’s children: The case of caste, sanitation, and child height. (2019) Social Justice Research. with Melissa Lopalo & Dean Spears.
Local social inequality, economic inequality, and disparities in child height in India (2019) Demography. with Ashwini Deshpande, Jeffrey Hammer & Dean Spears.
The association between neonatal death and facility birth in regions of India (2019) Demographic Research. 40(16): 417-430.
Child height in India: Facts and Interpretations in the NFHS-4, 2015-16 (2018) Economic & Political Weekly. with Dean Spears.
Explicit prejudice: Evidence from a new survey (2018) Economic & Political Weekly. with Payal Hathi, Nidhi Khurana & Amit Thorat.
Switching to sanitation: Understanding latrine adoption in a representative panel of rural Indian households (2017) Social Science & Medicine. with Dean Spears and Sangita Vyas.
Sanitation, disease externalities, and anemia: Evidence from Nepal (2017) The Economic Journal. with Michael Geruso and Dean Spears.
Understanding open defecation in rural India: Untouchability, pollution, and latrine pits (2017) Economic & Political Weekly. Special Issue: Rural Affairs. with Payal Hathi, Aashish Gupta, Dean Spears, Nikhil Srivastav & Sangita Vyas.
Place and child health: The interaction of population density and sanitation behavior in developing countries (2017) Demography. with Payal Hathi, Lovey Pant, Sabrina Haque & Dean Spears.
Underweight and pregnant: Maternity entitlements and weight gain during pregnancy (2016) Indian Journal of Human Development. 10(2). with Payal Hathi.
Can collective action strategies motivate behavior change to reduce open defecation in rural India? (2016) Waterlines. 30(2). with Payal Hathi and Dean Spears.
Pre-pregnancy body mass and weight gain during pregnancy in India and sub-Saharan Africa (2015) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(11): 3302-3307.
Early life mortality and height in Indian states (2015) Economics & Human Biology. 17: 177-189.
Short-term labor migration from rural north India: Evidence from new survey data (2015) Population Research & Policy Review. 34: 361-380. with John Papp & Dean Spears.
Revealed preference for open defecation: Evidence from a new survey in rural north India (2014) Economic & Political Weekly. Special article, XLIX:(38). with Aashish Gupta, Payal Hathi, Nidhi Khurana, Dean Spears, Nikhil Srivastav & Sangita Vyas.
Costs and consequences of a cash transfer for hospital births in a rural district of Uttar Pradesh, India (2014) Social Science & Medicine, 114, 89-96.
Children’s welfare and short term migration from rural India (2013) Journal of Development Studies. 49 (8): 1101-1117.
Wealth and health of children in India: A state-level analysis (2013) Economic & Political Weekly. Special article, XLIX:(15). with Aparajita Chattopadhyay & Rajan Gupt.