Mitra
Biographic Data
| ID | 11572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mitra |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitra |
| SIGNATURE | MITRA |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7283-6630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 231 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Disability‐Inclusive Trade: A Conceptual Framework Grounded in Human Rights
The economic rights of persons with disabilities are often overlooked in policy debates on inclusive trade. Because persons with disabilities have limited labour market opportunities and are overrepresented in low‐income groups, it is important to consider how they may be affected by international trade. This paper contributes a definition and conceptual framework on disability‐inclusive trade grounded in human rights. The framework illuminates s…
Has the Beyond-GDP Agenda Made its Way into Policy discourses? Evidence from the Legislative Branch in Canada and the United States
Essential Indicators and Stunting Prevalence: An Aggregate Analysis in the Locus Villages of the Stunting Reduction Acceleration Program
The analysis aimed to evaluate the attainment of essential indicators of stunting prevalence in local villages under the Stunting Reduction Acceleration Program. Data were sourced from the Emonev Stunting Ministry of Home Affairs Dashboard, comprising aggregated information from 232 locus villages across 12 districts/cities in Riau Province for 2023. Stunting prevalence was the dependent variable, whereas essential attainment indicators served as…
Towards Person-Centred Care: Using the Capability Approach Together with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Are women with disabilities more at risk of intimate partner violence
Women with disabilities may face heightened risks of intimate partner violence (IPV) given the discrimination and barriers they face in society. While some country-specific studies explore the link between disability and IPV, cross-country research remains limited. Using internationally comparable data for women aged 15-49 from eleven countries (Cambodia, Haiti, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Pakistan, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Timor-Leste, and Ug…
Stress Due to Inflation: Changes over Time, Correlates, and Coping Strategies among Working-Age Adults in the United States
More than three quarters of working-age adults in the US experienced stress due to inflation. Despite a declining national inflation rate in recent months, stress due to inflation has significantly increased among working-age adults. Inflation-related stress warrants further research and policy attention
Stress Due to Inflation and Its Association with Anxiety and Depression Among Working-Age Adults in the United States
Inflation generates stress, which may lead to high rates of anxiety and depression. Given the recent surge and subsequent decline in the inflation rate in the United States, the prevalence of stress due to inflation may vary, as well as its relationship with anxiety and depression. Therefore, we investigated the prevalence of stress due to inflation and its association with anxiety and depression over time among working-age adults in the United S…
Links across disabilities: Unveiling associations between functional domains
There are consistent positive associations in the experience of functional difficulties in various domains in the six countries under study. Such correlations may reflect barriers to social services including healthcare services and resources (e.g. assistive devices) that may lead to an avoidable deterioration of functioning across domains. Further research is needed on the trajectories of functional difficulties and on structural barriers that p…
Halfway There, Long Way to Go: The Role of People’s Agency in the Final Years of the Sustainable Development Goals
As we mark the anniversary of the publication of the 2030 Agenda mid-term report, the world's nations stand at a crossroads. While off-track in achieving most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), multiple crises have further exposed deep inequalities and vulnerabilities in the current dominant approach centred on economic growth and resource allocations. In this editorial paper, scholars of the human development and capability association and ed…
Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures Associated with Chronic Health Conditions and Disability in China
The objective of this study is to estimate the extra costs of living associated with chronic health conditions and disabilities in China. Leveraging the 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study involving 13,530 respondents aged 50 and over, we apply both an ordinary least squares linear regression model and a logistic model to analyze the correlation between medical out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPEs) and chronic health conditions, as w…
Differences between persons with and without disability in HIV prevalence, testing, treatment, and care cascade in Tanzania: A cross-sectional study using population-based data
We found no significant differences in the odds of having HIV and of accessing ART between persons with and without disability in Tanzania. While PLHIV and disability, were often aware of their HIV-positive status than their non-disabled counterparts, men living with HIV and with disability may have been disadvantaged in having suppressed HIV viral loads. These differences are correctable with disability-inclusive HIV programming. HIV surveys aro…
Disability and social policy: Global evidence and perspectives
Inclusive statistics: A disaggregation of indicators by disability status and its implications for policy
Disability has received limited attention on the global data and social policy scene. There are few global data portals or indices tracking the socioeconomic situation of persons with disabilities. Global social policy initiatives tend to focus on disability benefits, while other social policies may impact the situation of persons with disabilities. The absence of internationally comparable data and tools to measure disability could explain this …
Invisible or Mainstream? Disability in Surveys and Censuses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This paper examines to what extent household surveys and censuses in low- and middle-income countries include disability questions and the types of questions under use. We found that only 31% of 734 datasets between 2009 and 2018 from 133 low- and middle-income countries have at least one disability-related question. Of the surveys reviewed, 15% of the datasets have functional difficulty questions that meet international standards, i.e. Washingto…
Midlife Work Limitations are Associated with Lower Odds of Survival and Healthy Aging
Even temporary work limitations can be highly disadvantageous for aging outcomes, emphasizing the need to understand different work limitation histories. Future research should identify underlying mechanisms linking midlife work limitations and less desirable aging outcomes
Are responses to the pandemic inclusive? A rapid virtual audit of Covid-19 press briefings in LMICs
Development and Interdisciplinarity: A Citation Analysis
Rising Income Inequality Through a Disability Lens: Trends in the United States 1981-2018
Long-lasting consequences of war on disability
This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965-75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and an instrumental variable strategy which exploits the distance to the former North-South border as a quasi-experiment, the article finds a positive and significant impact of bombing exposure on district level disability rates 40…
Disability, Health and Human Development
This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data wit
Disability and school attendance in 15 low- and middle-income countries
From Disability in Resource-Poor Settings to Policy and Research Opportunities in Global Health
The author discusses the need for better treatment of disabilities particularly in resource-poor countries. She mentions the lack of standards to measure disabilities, government policies regarding people with disabilities, and the need to improve research and policies
Extra costs of living with a disability: A review and agenda for research
BACKGROUND: There has been a growing interest in disability and poverty on the international research and policy stages. Poverty assessments for persons with disabilities may be affected by the experience of extra costs associated with a disability. OBJECTIVE: This article provides a systematized review of the global literature on the direct costs associated with living with a disability at the individual or household level. METHODS: We searched …
Income Poverty and Multiple Deprivations in a High‐Income Country: The Case of the United States
Objectives The objective of this study is to develop a measure of multiple deprivations for the United States that is similar to those used on the international stage as multidimensional poverty. The latter is understood broadly as a deprivation of well‐being across multiple dimensions rather than purely as a lack of income or other financial resources. Methods Using Current Population Survey and American Community Survey data, this study develop…
The anticipated and the lived experience of home and in-centre haemodialysis: Is there a disconnect
This qualitative study aimed to explore home haemodialysis and in-centre haemodialysis patients' experience, to illuminate barriers and facilitators in the uptake and maintenance of home haemodialysis. Thirty-two semi-structured interviews with patients receiving home haemodialysis or in-centre haemodialysis were analysed using framework analysis. Four themes emerged: 'perceptions of self'; 'impact of haemodialysis on family'; 'perceived advantag…
Disability and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Multidimensional Study
The Capability Approach and Disability
The definition of disability is of interest to disability policymakers and analysts because it has fundamental implications for eligibility for public programs, for the scope of legislation, and for the way disability prevalence is measured. The purpose of this article is to assess how an approach developed in economics to analyze issues related to the standard of living, the so-called capability approach, may help us understand disability at the…
Disability and school attendance in 15 low- and middle-income countries
Implementing a Multidimensional Poverty Measure Using Mixed Methods and a Participatory Framework
Disability and the Rural Labor Market in India: Evidence for Males in Tamil Nadu
Is There a Disability Gap in Employment Rates in Developing Countries
More Likely to Be Poor Whatever the Measure: Working‐Age Persons with Disabilities in the United States
Objective: This article examines whether disability is a correlate of poverty when poverty is measured using (1) the official poverty measure; (2) the supplemental poverty measure (SPM); and (3) two multidimensional poverty measures created by the authors. Methods: Data from the Current Population Survey are used to explore the relationship between poverty and disability for each measure. Differences across disability status were tested for stati…
The impact of health insurance for children under age 6 in Vietnam: A regression discontinuity approach
Accessing health services at an early age is important to future health and life outcomes. Yet, little is currently known on the role of health insurance in facilitating access to care for children. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design made possible through a policy to provide health insurance to pre-school aged children in Vietnam, this paper evaluates the impact of health insurance on the health care utilization outcomes of children at …
Invisible or Mainstream? Disability in Surveys and Censuses in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
This paper examines to what extent household surveys and censuses in low- and middle-income countries include disability questions and the types of questions under use. We found that only 31% of 734 datasets between 2009 and 2018 from 133 low- and middle-income countries have at least one disability-related question. Of the surveys reviewed, 15% of the datasets have functional difficulty questions that meet international standards, i.e. Washingto…
Long-lasting consequences of war on disability
This article investigates the impact of exposure to United States air force bombing during 1965-75 on the disability status of individuals in Vietnam in 2009. Using a combination of national census and US military data and an instrumental variable strategy which exploits the distance to the former North-South border as a quasi-experiment, the article finds a positive and significant impact of bombing exposure on district level disability rates 40…
Income Poverty and Multiple Deprivations in a High‐Income Country: The Case of the United States
Objectives The objective of this study is to develop a measure of multiple deprivations for the United States that is similar to those used on the international stage as multidimensional poverty. The latter is understood broadly as a deprivation of well‐being across multiple dimensions rather than purely as a lack of income or other financial resources. Methods Using Current Population Survey and American Community Survey data, this study develop…
Temporary and Partial Disability Programs in Nine Countries: What Can the United States Learn From Other Countries
This article reviews and compares disability benefit systems in nine countries—Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States. It focuses on temporary and partial disability benefit programs and on how such programs may help return persons with disabilities to work. An analysis of the general advantages and disadvantages of temporary and partial disability programs is presented. Spec…
Development and Interdisciplinarity: A Citation Analysis
Rising Income Inequality Through a Disability Lens: Trends in the United States 1981-2018
Health, Disability and the Capability Approach: An Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities focuses on two areas of substantial and growing importance to the human development and capability approach: disability and h
Disability Cash Transfers in the Context of Poverty and Unemployment: The Case of South Africa
The Early Intervention Project: An Innovative Initiative to Return Disability Insurance Applicants to Work
Efforts by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help beneficiaries of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) return to work have had limited success. The Early Intervention project represents the first initiative by SSA in which SSDI applicants will be provided temporary inducements and return-to-work services. Inducements will include a 1-year cash stipend and public health insurance for 3 years. Early Intervention is expected to be …
The anticipated and the lived experience of home and in-centre haemodialysis: Is there a disconnect
This qualitative study aimed to explore home haemodialysis and in-centre haemodialysis patients' experience, to illuminate barriers and facilitators in the uptake and maintenance of home haemodialysis. Thirty-two semi-structured interviews with patients receiving home haemodialysis or in-centre haemodialysis were analysed using framework analysis. Four themes emerged: 'perceptions of self'; 'impact of haemodialysis on family'; 'perceived advantag…
Dynamics in Health and Employment: Evidence from Indonesia
Estimating the expectation of life at older ages
A mathematical formula expressing the expectation of life e(a) at age a as a function of the death rate, the average age and the rate of growth of the population in the age interval a and above has been derived on the assumption of a stable population model. The formula is particularly helpful in estimating life expectancies at old ages, where the age and death statistics are of questionable accuracy in many countries. It is comforting to note th…
On 'The Measurement of Spatial Segregation
Problems in Stable Population Theory.Alvaro Lopez
Problems in Stable Population Theory.Alvaro Lopez
Measures of Urbanization: A Comment
Journal Article “Measures of Urbanization”: A Comment Get access S. Mitra S. Mitra Emory University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 47, Issue 2, December 1968, Pages 220–221, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/47.2.220 Published: 01 December 1968
Population and People: Problems of American Society
Changing Characteristics of the Negro Population: A 1960 Census Monograph
On Das Gupta's `Birth Function in a Two-Sex Model
On Das Gupta's 'Birth function in a two-sex model
I have read with great interest Das Gupta's(1) critique of my approach(2) towards the development of a two sex-model. To set the records straight, I must state that his criticisms are not well founded due to the following reasons
Estimating the expectation of life at older ages
A mathematical formula expressing the expectation of life e(a) at age a as a function of the death rate, the average age and the rate of growth of the population in the age interval a and above has been derived on the assumption of a stable population model. The formula is particularly helpful in estimating life expectancies at old ages, where the age and death statistics are of questionable accuracy in many countries. It is comforting to note th…
On 'The Measurement of Spatial Segregation
On Estimating the Expectation of Life at Old Ages: Reply to Professor Coale
(1985). On Estimating the Expectation of Life at Old Ages: Reply to Professor Coale. Population Studies: Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 511-512
About the Effect of Changes in Age-specific Mortality on Life Expectancy
About the Effect of Changes in Age-Specific Mortality on Life Expectancy
On the convergence of Das Gupta's model of fertility projection
A regression model expressing the age-specific fertility rates at a given point of time as a variable dependent upon the same at the preceding points of time has been developed by Das Gupta for purposes of fertility projection. The model, judged by the values of the multiple correlation coefficients, appears to work very well with the U.S. data set, and it also produces limiting values of the fertility rates when the projection is carried far int…
Stochastic Processes in Demography and Applications
Effect of a herbomineral preparation D-400 in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
The Early Intervention Project: An Innovative Initiative to Return Disability Insurance Applicants to Work
Efforts by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help beneficiaries of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) return to work have had limited success. The Early Intervention project represents the first initiative by SSA in which SSDI applicants will be provided temporary inducements and return-to-work services. Inducements will include a 1-year cash stipend and public health insurance for 3 years. Early Intervention is expected to be …
The Capability Approach and Disability
The definition of disability is of interest to disability policymakers and analysts because it has fundamental implications for eligibility for public programs, for the scope of legislation, and for the way disability prevalence is measured. The purpose of this article is to assess how an approach developed in economics to analyze issues related to the standard of living, the so-called capability approach, may help us understand disability at the…
Temporary and Partial Disability Programs in Nine Countries: What Can the United States Learn From Other Countries
This article reviews and compares disability benefit systems in nine countries—Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, and the United States. It focuses on temporary and partial disability benefit programs and on how such programs may help return persons with disabilities to work. An analysis of the general advantages and disadvantages of temporary and partial disability programs is presented. Spec…
Disability and the Rural Labor Market in India: Evidence for Males in Tamil Nadu
Disability Cash Transfers in the Context of Poverty and Unemployment: The Case of South Africa
Decomposing Gender Differences in Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol among Veterans with or at Risk for Cardiovascular Illness
Disability and Poverty in Developing Countries: A Multidimensional Study
Is There a Disability Gap in Employment Rates in Developing Countries
Implementing a Multidimensional Poverty Measure Using Mixed Methods and a Participatory Framework
More Likely to Be Poor Whatever the Measure: Working‐Age Persons with Disabilities in the United States
Objective: This article examines whether disability is a correlate of poverty when poverty is measured using (1) the official poverty measure; (2) the supplemental poverty measure (SPM); and (3) two multidimensional poverty measures created by the authors. Methods: Data from the Current Population Survey are used to explore the relationship between poverty and disability for each measure. Differences across disability status were tested for stati…
The impact of health insurance for children under age 6 in Vietnam: A regression discontinuity approach
Accessing health services at an early age is important to future health and life outcomes. Yet, little is currently known on the role of health insurance in facilitating access to care for children. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design made possible through a policy to provide health insurance to pre-school aged children in Vietnam, this paper evaluates the impact of health insurance on the health care utilization outcomes of children at …
Health, Disability and the Capability Approach: An Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities focuses on two areas of substantial and growing importance to the human development and capability approach: disability and h
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