Sonalde Desai
@SonaldeDesai
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Data junkie & Prof. of Sociology University of Maryland & NCAER. Living a life consumed by India Human Development Survey fieldwork.
New Delhi & Washington DC
Joined March 2014
Heartbreaking human cost of the flurry of executive orders from the new US administration
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@mitalinikore Thank you for your kind words Mitali. I really enjoy listening to you. We are a mutual admiration society
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@sanyampandey NREGA is a great program buffeted by competing demands. What is needed is to ensure that it meets the needs of the poor and improves their future opportunities.
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@Rukmini @PySamarth @theplankmag Thanks Rukmini. Learnt a lot from the story. On a different track, I have been wondering if the obsession with outcome monitoring leads us astray. Monitoring PM10 and ignoring PM2.5 is an interesting illustration. Would love to find other examples.
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What an insightful story!
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Reminds me of a fascinating note by Paul Demeny @Pop_Council where he suggested allowing some of children’s social security payments to their own parents rather than generalized intergenerational transfers. (PDR 1988) Paul who recently passed away was one of the best thinkers on institutional impacts on fertility behavior. @alakabasu
This is an interesting proposal. But there are 2 things that may imply smaller effects than expected. 1/ Implied marginal tax rates on kids & their labor supply. 2/ It’s hard to shift income from future to present w/o raising prices because it’s hard to shift resources/tech from future to present. A lot of the shift will be like printing money via IOU’s.
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@Josh_Merfeld It would be great if economists were a little more informed about the underlying “data” that they analyze. Survey methodology may have something to teach.
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RT @pcmohanan: We give a brief review of poverty estimation based on the new household expenditure survey and issues arising from the new…
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Look from the sky and hey presto, we know GDP growth rate in Rajkot! If you thought magic bullet of nightlights predicting GDP was too simple, here is interesting evidence @PibMospi and NSOs around the world, you still have a job to do.
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An interesting new article using IHDS-1 and 2 data. We need more such studies that look at the relationship between structural changes and gendered outcomes. Focusing on households as a root cause for gender inequality using micro studies misses out important areas of policy intervention.
Read this research by @rikhia_, @DebPakrashi, Sarani Saha & @AshishKumarSed1, which shows that improved reliability of electricity is beneficial for women’s empowerment in terms of mobility, role in household decision-making, health autonomy & safety:
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In recent years, I have wondered if feminist activism in India has peaked. This article, juxtaposing Indian women's leadership in global feminist movement against challenges facing women in cinema is striking. Feminist clarity begins at home via @economictimes
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Thanks Justin. Great list
“Ten insights from development economics research in 2024” Great list from VoxDev editor @oliverhanney. A few of my favorites:
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