Population Studies:

 

Vijayendra Rao, Book Review: William Axinn and Lisa D. Pearce, Mixed Method Data Collection Strategies, Cambridge University Press, Economic Development and Cultural Change - forthcoming.

Monica Das Gupta, Samuel H. Preston, Vijayendra Rao, and TV Sekhar, "PN Mari Bhat: An Intellectual Tribute," Economic and Political Weekly, September 8 2007, Pp: 3611-3615

Vijayendra Rao, "Book Review of Tim Dyson, Robert Cassen, Leela Visaria (eds.) Twenty-First Century India: Population, Economy, Human Development and Environment, Oxford University Press, 2004," Population and Development Review 32(2), June 2006

Vijayendra Rao, "The Economics of Dowries in India," in Kaushik Basu (editor), Oxford Companion to Economics, Oxford University Press, Delhi (forthcoming) 2006 (See Sudhir Dhar's cartoon on dowries)

Lupin Rahman and Vijayendra Rao, "The Determinants of Gender Equity in India: Examining Dyson and Moore's Thesis with New Data", Population and Development Review, 30(2), Pp: 239-268, June 2004(This is an electronic version of an article published in Population and Development Review. Complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Population and Development Review, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal’s website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdr or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com)

Vijayendra Rao, "The Marriage Squeeze Interpretation of Dowry Inflation: Response." (long version) Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 108, #6, December 2000.

Vijayendra Rao, "Domestic Violence and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Karnataka: An Exercise in 'Participatory Econometrics'," in Gender, Population, and Development, M.Krishnaraj,R.Sudarshan, A.Sharif (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1998

Anil Deolalikar and Vijayendra Rao, "The Demand for Dowries and Bride Characteristics in Marriage: Empirical Estimates for Rural South-Central India," in Gender, Population, and Development, M.Krishnaraj,R.Sudarshan, A.Sharif (ed.), Oxford University Press, 1998.

Vijayendra Rao, "Can Economics Mediate the Link Between Anthropology and Demography?"  Population and Development Review, December 1997

Vijayendra Rao, "Wife Beating in Rural South India: A Qualitative and Econometric Analysis," Social Science and Medicine , Vol. 44, # 8, Pp. 1169-1180, April 1997. (See "Domestic Violence and Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Rural Karnataka: An Exercise in 'Participatory Econometrics' for an expanded and more comprehensive version of this paper).

Margaret E. Greene and Vijayendra Rao, "The Marriage Squeeze and the Rise in Informal Marriage in Brazil," Social Biology, Vol. 42 #1/2, Spring 1995 (Also published in Portugese as "A Compressao do Mercado Matrimonial e oumento das Uniones Consensuais no Brasil," Revista Brasileira De Estudos De Populâço , V.9 N.2, Jul/Dec. 1992

Vijayendra Rao, "The Rising Price of Husbands: A Hedonic Analysis of Dowry Increases in Rural India", Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 101, #4, August 1993.

Vijayendra Rao, "Dowry Inflation in Rural India: A Statistical Investigation," Population Studies, Vol. 47, July 1993

Vijayendra Rao, "Diet, Mortality and Life Expectancy: A Cross National Analysis", Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 1 #3, February 1989