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Research program: Wellbeing in India

This program traces wellbeing in India over the last two centuries.

  • Height and other anthropometric measures are used as indicators of wellbeing.
  • Socio-economic factors and political events associated with changes in wellbeing are examined.
  • Recent research has investigated infant malnutrition, infant feeding practices and teenage pregnancy.
  • Current focuses are on civil violence and inequality, and writing a book summarising research to date.
  • When the India National Family Health Survey, NFHS-3, is published in late 2007 or early 2008, our published research will be updated.
  • The program has been funded by the Australian Research Council and Flinders University.

Joint program directors


Dr Lance Brennan
History
Flinders University
Email: lance.brennan@flinders.edu.au
 
Dr Lance Brennan is retired, but as an Associate Professor continues to research and teach modern Indian history at Flinders University. His main research interests remain Indian national and communal politics, famine relief, and changes in the structure of inequality.


Professor John McDonald
Flinders Business School
Flinders University
Email: john.mcdonald@flinders.edu.au
 
Professor John McDonald was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1977, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 1993 and was appointed to a Personal Chair at Flinders University in 1994. He has published widely in statistics and econometrics, economics and economic history, and was for 10 years an Associate Editor of the American Statistical Journal, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.


Dr Ralph Shlomowitz
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University
Email: ralph.shlomowitz@flinders.edu.au
 
Dr Ralph Shlomowitz is an economic and demographic historian. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in in 2004.

Publications

  1. Trends in the economic well-being of south Indians under British rule: The anthropometric evidence (PDF 2MB) , Explorations in Economic History, 31, 1994, 225-260.
  2. The heights and well-being of north Indians under British rule (PDF 1MB) , Social Science History, 18, 1994, 271-307.
  3. Secular changes in the heights of Fijians and Indo-Fijians (PDF 744KB) , Journal of the Australian Population Association, 10, 1994, 159-169.
  4. Long-term change in Indian health (PDF 2MB) , Social and Economic Studies, 44, 1995, 73-93.
  5. The variation in the height of Indian women, 1998-1999 (PDF 1MB) , Man in India, 75, 1995, 327-337.
  6. Towards an anthropometric history of Indians under British rule (PDF 3MB) , Research in Economic History, 17, 1997, 185-246.
  7. Sex differences in Indian height at home and abroad (PDF 1MB) , Man in India, 77, 1997, 105-118.
  8. Secular changes in the height of Fijians and Indo-Fijians (PDF 744KB) , in Classics of Anthropometric History ed. Cuff, T. and Komlos, J. Scripta Mercaturae, St. Katharinen, Germany, 1998.
  9. Change in the stature of north Indian?s from British rule to early independence (PDF 1MB) , Jahrbuch fur Wirtschaftsgeschichte 1, 2000, 129-146.
  10. The 'unverted U' hypothesis: Evidence from Indian height data (PDF 419KB) , Journal of Income Distribution, 10, 2002, 77-81.
  11. Long-term change in Indian health (PDF 2MB) , South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 24, 2003, 51-69.
  12. A statistical study of malnutrition: The puzzle of wasting (PDF 2MB) , Demography India, 32, 2003, 161-169.
  13. Infant feeding practices and chronic malnutrition in the Indian states of Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh (PDF 142KB) , Economics and Human Biology, 2, 2004, 139-158.
  14. A long run decline in final adult female height in India (PDF 971KB) , Man in India, 84, 2004, 8-14.
  15. Teenage births and final adult height of mothers (PDF 1MB) , 1998-1999, Journal of Biosocial Sciences, 17, 2005, 185-191.
  16. The variation in the height of Indian women, 1998-1999 (PDF 1MB) , Man in India, 85, 2005, 41-48.
  17. Caste, inequality and the nation-state: The impact of reservation policies in India, c.1950-2000 (PDF 304KB) , South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 29, 2006, 117-162.

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