Vijayendra Rao

Assistant Professor of Economics

On Leave at Brown University till January 1999.

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Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1990

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

Development, Demography, Anthropological Economics

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

India

Vijayendra Rao, "Wife Beating in Rural South India: A Qualitative and Econometric Analysis," Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 44, # 8, Pp. 1169-1180, 1997

__________, "The Demand for Dowries and Bride Characteristics in Marriage: Empirical Estimates for Rural South-Central India,", (with Anil Deolakilar, Univ. of Washington), Gender, Population, and Developme nt, M.Krishnaraj, R.Sudarshan, A.Sharif (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1997 (forthcoming)

__________,"Wife-Abuse, Its Causes and Its Impact on Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Karnataka: A "Participatory" Econometric Analysis," Gender, Population, and Development, M.Krishnara j, R.Sudarshan, A.Sharif (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1997 (forthcoming)

__________, "Are Prices Higher for the Poor? Unit Price Variation and "Real" Inequality Among Rural South Indian Households," mimeo, June 1997.

__________,"Terror as a Bargaining Instrument: A Case-Study of Dowry Violence in Rural India," (with Francis Bloch), mimeo, Williams College, Revised - October 1997.
__________, "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.
__________, "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.