Kaushalendra Kumar

Assistant Professor
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

kaushalendra.1983@gmail.com

Field of Study: Demography, Economics, Population and Development, Public Health/ Epidemiology
 
Specialization: Age and Sex Structure, Ageing, Applied Demography, Economic Demography, Education and Schooling, Families and Households, Fertility, Gender Roles-Differentials, Income, Poverty and Welfare, Labor force/Employment, Mortality, Health, and Longevity, Population and Development, Population and Environment, Social Demography, Spatial Analysis (and Geographic Information), Theory
 
Regional focus: South Asia
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Population and Development, 2016
 
Working languages: English
Hindi
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Asian Population Association (APA), European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), Population Association of America (PAA)


Personal web page:
https://www.iipsindia.ac.in/department-faculties/39
Curriculum Vitae:
Kaushalendra Kumar_CV.docx
Professional web page:
https://www.iipsindia.ac.in/department-faculties/39  
 
Professional Summary:

Kaushalendra Kumar is Assistant Professor of Public Health and Mortality Studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. He is Ph.D. in Population Studies from IIPS. Dr. Kumar is a demographer and applied micro-economist by training with research interests in micro-econometric analysis of issues in economic development and health economics. His research work is focused to identify the determinants of health and human capital, and its effect on labour productivity and economic development in developing country. And, his research works are published in peer-reviewed high-impact journals such as The Lancet Global Health, Studies in Family Planning, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of the Economics of Ageing, Population, Maternal and Child Health Journal, PLOS ONE, Social Indicators Research, Economics Bulletin, and BMC Public Health. He is involved to train the graduate students in courses- Health Economics, Mortality, Morbidity, quantitative methods in applied research.

 

Publications:

1) Kaushalendra Kumar, Abhishek Singh, and Amy Tsui, ‘Measuring contraceptive use in India: Implications of recent fieldwork design and implementation of the National Family Health Survey’, 2022. Demographic Research. 7(4), 73-110. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2022.47.4 / https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol47/4/

2) Swati Srivastava, Kaushalendra Kumar, Lotus McDougal, Ajit Kumar Kannaujiya, Ankit Sikarwar, Anita Raj, and Abhishek Singh, ‘Spatial heterogeneity in intimate partner violence across the 640 districts of India: a secondary analysis of a cross-sectional, population-based survey by use of model-based small-area estimation’, 2023. The Lancet Global Health. 11(10), e1587-e1597. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00377-7

3) Soumya Pal, Abhishek Singh, and Kaushalendra Kumar, ‘Inequality in length of life in India: an empirical analysis’, 2022. Journal of Population Research. 39(3), 315-340. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-022-09284-6

4) Santosh Kumar, Kaushalendra Kumar, Ramanan Laxminarayan, and Arindam Nandi, ‘Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood: Evidence from India’, 2022. Econ Pap, 41: 155-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-3441.12335

5) Abhishek Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar, Fred Arnold, ‘How interviewers affect responses to sensitive questions on the justification for wife beating, the refusal to have conjugal sex, and domestic violence in India', Studies in Family Planning. 2022; 00: 1– 21. https://doi.org/10.1111/sifp.12193

 
Research grants:
Gender Equity and Demographic Research Project (GENDER) at International Institute for Population Sciences, India, Co-Principal Investigator, funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, November 2022 – Continuing (https://iipsindia.ac.in/content/gender-project)



Gender Health and Equity (GEH) at International Institute for Population Sciences, India, Co-Principal Investigator, funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, November 2017 to October 2022 (https://iipsindia.ac.in/content/gender-project)



Family Health and Wealth Study (FHWS) at International Institute for Population Sciences, India, Co-Principal Investigator, funded by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, USA, October 2015 – August 2016