Demographically, Asia is an extremely diverse continent and this has never been more apparent to me than at the recently-concluded annual meet of the Asian Population Association (APA) Conference. When the countries represented range from Mongolia…

I’m writing this based on some challenges I ran into when classifying employment categories for a household survey and learning about the myriad types of part- and full-time jobs that people, most importantly women, were doing in peri-urban areas …

It has been a productive time in India thus far, and a homecoming of sorts for me, a researcher sitting in the US and working on India. The productivity of Indian researchers (i.e. researchers on India) can be measured through their projects and m…

Delhi is a city bustling with people working for and with the government, as well as of course those working against the government. The latter cause the former and everybody else to remain perpetually nervous, and no amount of security appears to…