Sonalde Desai

5.9k citations
70 papers · 3.7k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 29

Sonalde Desai

68 papers receiving 3.3k citations

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Maternal education and child health: Is there a strong ca...5591998202620072016100200300400500

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Sonalde Desai
Comparison fields: 5 of 139
  • Gender Studies 1.2k
  • Safety Research 927
  • Health 399
  • Demography 503
  • Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health 721
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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1 20232
2 20232
3 202143
4 202120
5 202011
6 202013
7 202028
8 20201
9 201884
10 201814
11 201718
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Determinants of private healthcare utilisation and expenditure patterns in India
20149
13 2012203
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Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transition
201038
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Private Schooling in India: A New Educational Landscape
200882
16 2008127
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Social Networks in India: Caste, Tribe, and Religious Variations
200612
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Is Employment Driving India's Growth Surge?
20046
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Why are educated women less likely to be employed in India? Testing competing hypotheses
200338
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Land redistribution: a population stabilisation strategy?
19985

About Sonalde Desai

Sonalde Desai is a scholar working on Gender Studies, Safety Research, Demography, Sociology and Political Science and Soil Science, having authored 70 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (21 papers), Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (16 papers), Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (15 papers), Income, Poverty, and Inequality (8 papers), Global Maternal and Child Health (7 papers), Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 papers), Global Health Care Issues (6 papers) and Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Gender Studies (1.2k citations), Safety Research (927 citations), Health (399 citations), Demography (503 citations) and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health (721 citations). Sonalde Desai has collaborated with scholars based in United States, India and Australia. Frequent co-authors include Soumya Alva, Reeve Vanneman, Linda J. Waite, Amaresh Dubey, Veena S. Kulkarni, P. Lindsay Chase‐Lansdale, Robert T. Michael, Kriti Vikram, Devaki Jain and Francis Bloch. Their work appears in journals such as Population and Development Review, Demography, Demographic Research, Feminist Economics and World Development.

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