Published journal articles


Local Crime and Early Marriage: Evidence from India, The Journal of Development Studies (Sarkar, 2024) DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2024.2319069

Who Eats Last? Intra-Household Gender Inequality in Food Allocation Among Children (with Dipanwita Ghatak, Soham Sahoo, and Varun Sharma) - published in Population Studies, 78:1, 63-77, 2024. DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2023.2272991

"Measuring the impact of AI on jobs at the organization level: Lessons from a survey of UK business leaders" (with Wil Hunt and Chris Warhurst) - published in Research Policy Volume 51, Issue 2, March 2022, 104425. 

COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public Attitudes towards Welfare: Re-setting the Debate (with Michael Orton) - accepted in Critical Social Policy  (2022)

"Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis" (with Soham Sahoo and Stephan Klasen) published in World Development, Volume 115, March 2019, Pages 291-309

Discussion: Ideas for India blogpost, The print

"Employment Change in Occupations in Urban India: Implications for Wage Inequality ", published in Development and Change, 50(5): 1398–1429, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12461

"Educational mismatch in Europe at the turn of the century: Measurement, intensity and evolution" (with Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Raquel Sebastián and José-Ignacio Antón), International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 39 No. 8, pp. 977-995, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-10-2018-0327

"Employment Polarization and Over-education in Germany, Spain, Sweden and UK”, Empirica (2017), doi:10.1007/s10663-017-9372-8

Does Teaching Quality Matter? Students Learning Outcome Related to Teaching Quality in Public and Private Primary Schools in India” (with Renu Singh), International Journal of Educational Development, 41 (2015) 153-163.

Children’s Experience of Multidimensional Deprivation: Relationship with Household Monetary Poverty” (with Renu Singh), The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 56 (2015) 43-56.

Wages and Informal Labour Markets in India: Whither premiums on human capital investments?” (with Jeemol Unni), Indian Journal of Labour Economics, Vol. 56, No. 4, 2013.

Changing Occupation, Changing Skills: Graduate Labour Market in India” (with Jeemol Unni), Vikalpa, Vol. 37, No. 3, April-September, 2012.

Articles in Working Paper Series:

Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis” (with Soham Sahoo and Stephan Klasen), IZA Discussion Paper No. 11086, October, 2017.

Learning Environments in Andhra Pradesh, India: Children’s Academic Self-Concept and Mathematics Achievement” (with Renu Singh), Young Lives Working Paper 137, Young Lives, UK, March, 2015.

Education and Employment: An Exploration of the Demand Side Story” (with Jeemol Unni), Institute for Employment Research Working Paper, University of Warwick, UK, December, 2011.

Book Chapter:

Changes in the Employment Structure in India from 2012 to 2020: A Trend Towards Job Upgrading and De-routinization” (with Sergio Torrejon Perez) in Sergio Torrejón Pérez, Enrique Fernández-Macías, and John Hurley (eds), Global Trends in Job Polarisation and Upgrading: A Comparison of Developed and Developing Economies. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 231-260, February 2025.

“Employment and Education. An Exploration of the Demand Side Story” (with Jeemol Unni) in Devesh Kapur and Pratap Bhanu Mehta (eds), Navigating the Labyrinth. Perspectives on India’s Higher Education. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, pp. 157-184., January 2017.

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