Assistant Professor
Department of Economics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267, USA
Phone: 413-597-2144, Fax: 413-597-4045
On the Faculty of:
The Center for Environmental Studies, the Asian Studies Department, and the Women's Studies Department at Williams.
The University of Chicago
Ph.D. (Economics), December 1990
The University of Pennsylvania
Dissertation:Birth, Marriage and Death: Three Essays in Demographic Economics
Supervisor: Jere R. Behrman
B.A. (Economics, with Statistics and Sociology), 1984
St. Xavier's College, University of Bombay, Bombay, India
Population Studies Center, The University of Michigan, Sep.1992 - Sep. 1994
Policy Research Department, "Wife-Beating in Rural India: A Case-Study"
June 1993 - January 1994
Economics Research Center & Committee on Demographic Training
October 1990 - September 1992
Committee on Southern Asian Studies,
April 1991 - September 1992
Courses in 1994-95:
Econ 364: Economic Development
Econ 218: Population Economics
Misc 013: Introduction to Indian Classical Music (Winter Study)
Econ 253: Econometrics (2 Sections)
Courses in 1995-96:
Econ 101: Introduction to Economics (2 Sections)
Econ 253: Econometrics (2 Sections)
Econ 218: Population Economics
Courses in 1996-97:
Econ 511: Econometrics (CDE)
Misc 013: Introduction to Indian Classical Music (Winter Study)
Econ 101: Introduction to Economics (2 Sections)
Econ 389: Alternative Ways to View Economic Behavior
Jan. 1993- Sep.1994
Courses:
Economic Development
Economics of Population
1) Rockefeller Foundation. Collaborated with Sonalde Desai on a grant to study fertility and household decision making in India, 1995-96.
2) Mellon Foundation grant to study women's status, decision making and demographic transitions in rural South India using economic, demographic and anthropological methods. 1993-1994.
3) Fellowship from the Program for the Assesment and Revitalization of the Social Sciences, 1989-90, University of Pennsylvania
4) Mellon Foundation and Univ. of Pennsylvania Research Grant, "Studies in Marriage and Fertility in Brazil," (with Margaret E. Greene), 1989
5) Compton Foundation Fellowship 1988-89 and 1987-88, University of Pennsylvania
6) Aguiar Award for Best Undergraduate in the Arts and Humanities, St. Xavier's College.
Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, Demography, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of Labor Economics, World Bank Economic Review, American Sociological Review.
American Economic Association, Population Association of America, American Anthropological Association.
1) (With Sonalde Desai, Univ. of Maryland)
a) Old Age Support in India.
b) An assessment of population and development policy, household decision making, and cultural, social and economic inter-relationships in India.
Both will use a qualitative and quantitative comparison of data from two Indian States.
2) An economic, and anthropological study of household decision-making, health, fertility, and the status of women in the potter (Kumbhar) community of rural South India.
Beyond working papers listed above, future plans for research include:
i) The Economic Value of Gifts Exchanges.
ii) Social Goods and The Persistence of Norms: Why are marriage celebration costs so high?
iii) Can Economics Mediate the Relationship between Anthropology and Demography.
iv) Can Conversation Take the Con Out of Econometrics? The Value of Incorporating Qualitative Methods Into Econometrics.
1) North-East Universities Development Economics Conference, Boston University, November 1996, Scheduled to Present Paper, "Domestic Violence as a Bargaining Instrument in Rural India."
2) MacArthur-NCAER Conference on Gender Issues in Population Health and Development, New Delhi, January 1996, Presented two papers that will appear in the Conference Proceedings to be published by Oxford or Sage.
3) First International Conference on Dowry and Bride-Burning in India, Harvard University, November 1995, Chaired a Session and Presented a Paper.
4) Population Association of America, Presented paper "The Link Between Female Sterilization and Wife-Abuse," San Francisco, March 1995.
5) American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Presented Paper, "Statistical Discrmination, Identity Selection and the Social Transformation of Caste and Race," Washington D.C., January 1995
6) Conference on Anthropological Demography, Brown University, Presentation, "How Economics Can Mediate the Link Between Anthropology and Demography," November 1994.
7) Economic Demography Conference, Population Association of America, "Wife-Beating and the Allocation of Resources Within the Family," Miami, May 1994
8) Population Association of America Annual Meeting, "Wife-Beating, Its Causes and Its Implication: An Economic and Anthropological Case-Study of a Rural Indian Community," Miami, May, 1994
9) Conference on Sexual Coercion and Women's Reproductive Health, Population Council, New York City, November 1993,
Session Chair and Discussant of Session on Research Methodologies
10) Women in Development Conference, Middlebury College, VT, May 1992
"Marital Instability, Inter-Spouse Bargaining, and their Implications for Fertility in Brazil."
11) Population Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington DC, May 1992 "Dowries, Bride Choice and Assortative Mating in Developing Countries: A Comparison of India and Taiwan"
12) Econometric Society, North American Winter Meetings, New Orleans, LA, January 1992
"Marital Instability, Inter-Spouse Bargaining, and their Implications for Fertility in Brazil."