Vijayendra Rao

Assistant Professor of Economics

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Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1990

B.A., St. Xavier's College, University of Bombay, Economics with Statistics & Sociology, 1984

Fields

Development, Demography, Anthropological Economics

Selected Work Experience

1. Assistant Research Scientist and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics
   University of Michigan, 1992 - 1994
2. Hewlett Postdoctoral Fellow
   University of Chicago, 1990 - 1992

Country Experience

India

Publications and Working Papers

• Vijayendra Rao, "Wife Beating in Rural South India: A Qualitative and Econometric Analysis," Social Science and Medicine, forthcoming, late 1996.
• __________, "Are Prices Higher for the Poor? Unit Price Variation and "Real" Inequality Among Rural South Indian Households," mimeo, August 1996.
• __________, "Bargaining and Fertility in Brazil: A Qualitative and Econometric Analysis," (with Margaret Greene, Population Council) Williams College Research Memorandum Series, RM-153, February 1996. (Revised version of "Marital Instability, Inter-Spouse Bargaining and their Implications for Fertility in Brazil," Discussion Paper Series OSC (PRC), 91-3, Population Research Center, University of Chicago).
• __________, "The Demand for Dowries and Bride Characteristics in Marriage: Empirical Estimates for Rural South-Central India," Revised in January 1996, (with Anil Deolakilar, Univ. of Wahington), (Accepted for Publication in the Peer Reviewed Proceedings of the Conference on Gender Issues in Population, Health, and Development, New Delhi, India which has been submitted to Oxford University Press).
• __________, "Domestic Violence as a Bargaining Instrument in Rural India," (with Francis Bloch) mimeo, Williams College, Williams College Research Memorandum Series, RM-149, November 1995.
• __________, "The Marriage Squeeze and the Rise in Informal Marriage in Brazil" (with Margaret Greene, Population Council) Social Biology, Vol. 42, No. 1/2, Spring 1995.
• __________, "The Rising Price of Husbands: A Hedonic Analysis of Dowry Increases in Rural India," Journal of Political Economy Vol. 101, No. 4, August 1993.
• __________, "Statistical Discrimination, Identity Selection and the Social Transformation of Caste and Race," (with Francis Bloch) Research Report No. 93-276, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, August 1993. (Currently under revision).
• __________, "Dowry Inflation in rural India: A Statistical Investigation," Population Studies, Vol. 47, July 1993.
• __________, "Diet, Mortality and Life Expectancy: A Cross-National Analysis," Journal of Population Economics, Volume 1, No. 3, January 1989, Pp. 225-233.

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