Kriti Vikram

National University of Singapore | NUS · Department of Sociology

We investigate gender differences in time-use patterns in 1891 children and assess how time is reallocated in response to challenges faced by households in India. We use adaptations made within a household during adversities to understand how gender inequality in time use is produced and reinforced. Using three waves of the Young Lives Panel Survey...

Background: Child marriage, defined as marriage under the age of 18 years, remains pervasive in India. Global evidence documents a negative association between child marriage and women's reproductive and sexual health outcomes; however, its relationship with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) remains underexplored. Methods: We utilize biomarkers a...

India has witnessed a dramatic expansion of higher education, and women have emerged as noteworthy winners in the process. This paper focuses on the role of female college education on four dimensions of marriage: age at marriage, autonomy in the choice of spouse, work and financial empowerment, and quality of marital relationship. The study uses a...

This article adopts a life course perspective to examine the association between fathers’ migration and children's nutritional outcomes using the 2004–2005 and 2011–2012 waves of the national India Human Development Panel Survey (IHDS). It uses a sample of 8658 children aged six to eleven years and lagged dependent variable models to find that fath...

Objective This article links stress and cumulative disadvantage associated with early marriages with lower self-rated health, greater functional limitations, and chronic diseases among middle-aged women in India. Background Early marriage has been a defining feature of the marital landscape in India, but the literature is myopic in its assessment...

This article examines the link between paternal migration and children’s arithmetic and reading achievement, using the 2005 and 2012 waves of the national India Human Development Survey (IHDS). Additionally, it investigates if fathers’ migration is associated with increased investments in children’s education and time spent on educational activitie...

Maternal education plays a central role in children’s health, but there has been little research comparing the role of maternal education across health outcomes. It is important to distinguish child health outcomes from medical care outcomes. Health outcomes such as short-term morbidity and stunting are multifactorial in origin and determined by a...

As female labor force participation increases globally, the relationship between maternal employment and children's development remains unclear. Using data from the India Human Development Survey (2005), we investigate the link between maternal employment and children's arithmetic and reading achievement. We develop a work pattern typology that goe...

Empirical studies of social capital rarely take into account the socioeconomic context of the region in which it operates, indeed as most of this research has been located in high income countries. It is imperative to investigate how development may influence the impact of social capital, especially in developing countries. This paper examines the...

Massive rural-to-urban migration in China has led to spatial separation of millions of married couples. In this article, we examine the question of whether the well-documented health benefits of marriage extend to left-behind individuals in rural China who are spatially separated from their spouses. Using longitudinal data that span 16 years (China...

Social capital has increasingly been recognized as an important determinant of health in developed countries with advanced infrastructure, educated populations, and accessible and quality health and educational services. Hence, it may be a particularly advantageous resource in developing countries where human and economic capitals are found wanting...

Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work. This chapter argues that while, for more than 60 years, diverse international instruments have asserted that health is a human right, for this to become a reality much has to be done to ensure that all citizens have access to the social, political, economic, and cultural...

Introduction The World Health Organization's (WHO’s) constitution defines health as ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ (WHO, 1948, p 1). This may be widely accepted as an ideal, but in practice health continues to be perceived differentially by policy makers, health care p...