Premchand Dommaraju
Biographic Data
| ID | 272972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Premchand Dommaraju |
| GIVEN NAMES | Premchand |
| FAMILY NAME | Dommaraju |
| SIGNATURE | DOMMARAJU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanyang Technological University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6889-2039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Age Gap Between Spouses in South and Southeast Asia
Age gap between spouses has important implications for a range of outcomes-from fertility and longevity, to gender relationships, marital quality, and stability. This paper examines the age gap between spouses in 12 countries in South and Southeast Asia. The average age difference (husband's minus wife's age) is positive in all countries and ranges from 2.7 in Myanmar to 8.4 in Bangladesh. Age homogamous marriages accounted for 5% of all marriage…
Gavin Jones’ scholarship on divorce in Asia: Understanding trends, patterns, and implications
This paper highlights Professor Gavin Jones' seminal work on Asian divorce patterns, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia's Muslim communities. Beginning in the 1980s, Jones addressed the challenges of fragmented and often unreliable demographic data on divorce. With careful compilation and analysis of aggregate data, paired with firsthand surveys and ethnographic studies, he set a foundation for examining shifting divorce trends in Southeas…
Investigating demographic outcomes in the Covid-19 pandemic: Perspectives from Asia
Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will continue to have a profound influence on human society for many years to come. By now, it has resulted in an unmistakable impact on core demographic processes—mortality, fertility, migration, family and marriage, and health—all around the world. Its impact on the core components of demographic change undergirds many other changes that have transformed society, be it in the arena of healthcare, g…
Going against global marriage trends: The declining age at first marriage in Indonesia
Marriage is a key marker in the transition to adulthood across much of Asia. Globally, early marriages have declined, and marriage age has increased. This study examined changes in marriage timing for Indonesian women between 1965 and 2016 using multiple data sources, including registration, censuses, and surveys, and employed a robust methodology. The findings show that there was a steady decrease in the probability of first marriage between 196…
Transition to first marriage in Thailand: Cohort and educational changes
In memoriam
10.1080/17441730.2022.2127198
Grandparenting and Intergenerational Solidarity in Singapore
Demographic, social, and structural changes are transforming intergenerational relationships and aging experiences in Asia. While multigenerational families have increased and the duration of grandparenting has lengthened, multigenerational households have declined. Grandparents are increasingly embedded in multigenerational support, care, and reciprocal relationships. The paper examines cognitive and affective dimensions of intergenerational sol…
Taming the Noise: Soundscape and Livability in a Technocratic City-State
For hypergrowing Singapore, noise is an issue of everyday life. As a public problem, noise can be very relative because it deeply relates to the level of tolerance, while tolerance to noise is socially conditioned. But in a city where virtually every public issue is subject to technocratic handling, sound and noise are considered techno-environmental problems that require technocratic remedies. Drawing on the growing literature on soundscape and …
Social demography and pandemics
All the three components of demographic change—births, deaths, and migration—are deeply affected by pandemics. While deaths are the most obvious, pandemics leave an imprint, over the short and long term, on all the three demographic components. The demographic impacts are social in the sense that different social groups are impacted differently. Social demography is useful to uncover and understand social aspects of population dynamics including …
Productive aging in India
Marital instability in the context of dramatic societal change: The case of Kyrgyzstan
How do marriages fare during times of dramatic social, political and economic transition? Transitional societies offer a unique context for studying marital instability as they are often buffeted by countervailing forces of modernisation and re-traditionalisation, in addition to socio-economic and political changes. Using detailed and rich data from Kyrgyzstan, the study investigates trends over time in marital instability in response to societal…
Divorce and Separation in India
In India divorce and separation are perceived to be relatively rare events. While quantitative data are lacking, there is a rich multi-disciplinary literature on various aspects of marital stability in India. This article draws on this literature to contextualize the key aspects of marriage and the socio-cultural and legal systems that influence durability of marriages in India. The article then presents estimates of prevalence, trends, and varia…
One-person households in India
The objectives of this article are: 1) to estimate the prevalence of one-person households in India; 2) to examine the demographic, social and economic characteristics of these households, and 3) to analyse the determinants of one-person households
Households in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Drawing on original empirical research, this paper presents a comparative and comprehensive portrait of household composition, size and structure in Southeast Asia, using data from various rounds of Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). Countries included in the analyses are Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. Findings point to similarities across countries in the region on some a…
Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared
Divorce in Asia
Divorce Trends in Asia
Culture, Modernization, and Politics: Ethnic Differences in Union Formation in Kyrgyzstan
Instruction des femmes et évolution du mariage en Inde
Cet article examine l'influence de l'éducation sur la nuptialité des femmes en Inde, par l'analyse des données longitudinales extraites des recensements. Entre 1981 et 2001, les niveaux d'instruction et l'âge au mariage ont tous deux augmenté. Si les données transversales montrent une association positive entre le niveau de scolarisation et le report du mariage, la modélisation des données longitudinales indique que l'impact de l'instruction sur …
Female Schooling and Marriage Change in India
This study examines the influence of schooling on entry into marriage for women using panel data from the Indian censuses. Both schooling levels and marriage age increased in India between 1981 and 2001. While results from the cross-sectional data show that schooling is positively associated with delays in entry into marriage, results from the panel models suggest schooling to have a limited influence on marriage timing, especially during the 198…
India’s North–South divide and theories of fertility change
Nuptiality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia
This study analyses nuptiality patterns in three Central Asian countries—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan—over two decades preceding and one decade following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, using census and Demographic Health Survey data. Although marriage remained universal through the end of that period, marriage age increased, and for younger cohorts, marriage rates declined considerably. Marriage age began to increase in the years f…
Reproduction in upheaval: Ethnic-specific fertility responses to societal turbulence in Kazakhstan
This study contributes to the literature on demographic adjustments to societal crises by examining ethnic-specific probabilities of having first, second, and third marital births in late-twentieth-century Kazakhstan. Discrete-time logit models, employing data from the 1995 and 1999 Kazakhstan Demographic and Health Surveys, are fitted. The results show that the probability of a first birth responded to societal cataclysms of the post-Soviet tran…
The Pervasive and Persistent Influence of Caste on Child Mortality in India
Divorce Trends in Asia
Divorce and Separation in India
In India divorce and separation are perceived to be relatively rare events. While quantitative data are lacking, there is a rich multi-disciplinary literature on various aspects of marital stability in India. This article draws on this literature to contextualize the key aspects of marriage and the socio-cultural and legal systems that influence durability of marriages in India. The article then presents estimates of prevalence, trends, and varia…
Reproduction in upheaval: Ethnic-specific fertility responses to societal turbulence in Kazakhstan
This study contributes to the literature on demographic adjustments to societal crises by examining ethnic-specific probabilities of having first, second, and third marital births in late-twentieth-century Kazakhstan. Discrete-time logit models, employing data from the 1995 and 1999 Kazakhstan Demographic and Health Surveys, are fitted. The results show that the probability of a first birth responded to societal cataclysms of the post-Soviet tran…
The Pervasive and Persistent Influence of Caste on Child Mortality in India
Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared
Nuptiality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia
This study analyses nuptiality patterns in three Central Asian countries—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan—over two decades preceding and one decade following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, using census and Demographic Health Survey data. Although marriage remained universal through the end of that period, marriage age increased, and for younger cohorts, marriage rates declined considerably. Marriage age began to increase in the years f…
India’s North–South divide and theories of fertility change
One-person households in India
The objectives of this article are: 1) to estimate the prevalence of one-person households in India; 2) to examine the demographic, social and economic characteristics of these households, and 3) to analyse the determinants of one-person households
Culture, Modernization, and Politics: Ethnic Differences in Union Formation in Kyrgyzstan
Productive aging in India
Households in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Drawing on original empirical research, this paper presents a comparative and comprehensive portrait of household composition, size and structure in Southeast Asia, using data from various rounds of Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). Countries included in the analyses are Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. Findings point to similarities across countries in the region on some a…
Female Schooling and Marriage Change in India
This study examines the influence of schooling on entry into marriage for women using panel data from the Indian censuses. Both schooling levels and marriage age increased in India between 1981 and 2001. While results from the cross-sectional data show that schooling is positively associated with delays in entry into marriage, results from the panel models suggest schooling to have a limited influence on marriage timing, especially during the 198…
Transition to first marriage in Thailand: Cohort and educational changes
Instruction des femmes et évolution du mariage en Inde
Cet article examine l'influence de l'éducation sur la nuptialité des femmes en Inde, par l'analyse des données longitudinales extraites des recensements. Entre 1981 et 2001, les niveaux d'instruction et l'âge au mariage ont tous deux augmenté. Si les données transversales montrent une association positive entre le niveau de scolarisation et le report du mariage, la modélisation des données longitudinales indique que l'impact de l'instruction sur …
Going against global marriage trends: The declining age at first marriage in Indonesia
Marriage is a key marker in the transition to adulthood across much of Asia. Globally, early marriages have declined, and marriage age has increased. This study examined changes in marriage timing for Indonesian women between 1965 and 2016 using multiple data sources, including registration, censuses, and surveys, and employed a robust methodology. The findings show that there was a steady decrease in the probability of first marriage between 196…
Social demography and pandemics
All the three components of demographic change—births, deaths, and migration—are deeply affected by pandemics. While deaths are the most obvious, pandemics leave an imprint, over the short and long term, on all the three demographic components. The demographic impacts are social in the sense that different social groups are impacted differently. Social demography is useful to uncover and understand social aspects of population dynamics including …
Marital instability in the context of dramatic societal change: The case of Kyrgyzstan
How do marriages fare during times of dramatic social, political and economic transition? Transitional societies offer a unique context for studying marital instability as they are often buffeted by countervailing forces of modernisation and re-traditionalisation, in addition to socio-economic and political changes. Using detailed and rich data from Kyrgyzstan, the study investigates trends over time in marital instability in response to societal…
Gavin Jones’ scholarship on divorce in Asia: Understanding trends, patterns, and implications
This paper highlights Professor Gavin Jones' seminal work on Asian divorce patterns, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia's Muslim communities. Beginning in the 1980s, Jones addressed the challenges of fragmented and often unreliable demographic data on divorce. With careful compilation and analysis of aggregate data, paired with firsthand surveys and ethnographic studies, he set a foundation for examining shifting divorce trends in Southeas…
Investigating demographic outcomes in the Covid-19 pandemic: Perspectives from Asia
Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will continue to have a profound influence on human society for many years to come. By now, it has resulted in an unmistakable impact on core demographic processes—mortality, fertility, migration, family and marriage, and health—all around the world. Its impact on the core components of demographic change undergirds many other changes that have transformed society, be it in the arena of healthcare, g…
Divorce in Asia
Nuptiality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia
This study analyses nuptiality patterns in three Central Asian countries—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan—over two decades preceding and one decade following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, using census and Demographic Health Survey data. Although marriage remained universal through the end of that period, marriage age increased, and for younger cohorts, marriage rates declined considerably. Marriage age began to increase in the years f…
Reproduction in upheaval: Ethnic-specific fertility responses to societal turbulence in Kazakhstan
This study contributes to the literature on demographic adjustments to societal crises by examining ethnic-specific probabilities of having first, second, and third marital births in late-twentieth-century Kazakhstan. Discrete-time logit models, employing data from the 1995 and 1999 Kazakhstan Demographic and Health Surveys, are fitted. The results show that the probability of a first birth responded to societal cataclysms of the post-Soviet tran…
The Pervasive and Persistent Influence of Caste on Child Mortality in India
Female Schooling and Marriage Change in India
This study examines the influence of schooling on entry into marriage for women using panel data from the Indian censuses. Both schooling levels and marriage age increased in India between 1981 and 2001. While results from the cross-sectional data show that schooling is positively associated with delays in entry into marriage, results from the panel models suggest schooling to have a limited influence on marriage timing, especially during the 198…
India’s North–South divide and theories of fertility change
Instruction des femmes et évolution du mariage en Inde
Cet article examine l'influence de l'éducation sur la nuptialité des femmes en Inde, par l'analyse des données longitudinales extraites des recensements. Entre 1981 et 2001, les niveaux d'instruction et l'âge au mariage ont tous deux augmenté. Si les données transversales montrent une association positive entre le niveau de scolarisation et le report du mariage, la modélisation des données longitudinales indique que l'impact de l'instruction sur …
Divorce in Asia
Divorce Trends in Asia
Culture, Modernization, and Politics: Ethnic Differences in Union Formation in Kyrgyzstan
Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia: Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared
Households in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Drawing on original empirical research, this paper presents a comparative and comprehensive portrait of household composition, size and structure in Southeast Asia, using data from various rounds of Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS). Countries included in the analyses are Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos. Findings point to similarities across countries in the region on some a…
One-person households in India
The objectives of this article are: 1) to estimate the prevalence of one-person households in India; 2) to examine the demographic, social and economic characteristics of these households, and 3) to analyse the determinants of one-person households
Divorce and Separation in India
In India divorce and separation are perceived to be relatively rare events. While quantitative data are lacking, there is a rich multi-disciplinary literature on various aspects of marital stability in India. This article draws on this literature to contextualize the key aspects of marriage and the socio-cultural and legal systems that influence durability of marriages in India. The article then presents estimates of prevalence, trends, and varia…
Marital instability in the context of dramatic societal change: The case of Kyrgyzstan
How do marriages fare during times of dramatic social, political and economic transition? Transitional societies offer a unique context for studying marital instability as they are often buffeted by countervailing forces of modernisation and re-traditionalisation, in addition to socio-economic and political changes. Using detailed and rich data from Kyrgyzstan, the study investigates trends over time in marital instability in response to societal…
Productive aging in India
Social demography and pandemics
All the three components of demographic change—births, deaths, and migration—are deeply affected by pandemics. While deaths are the most obvious, pandemics leave an imprint, over the short and long term, on all the three demographic components. The demographic impacts are social in the sense that different social groups are impacted differently. Social demography is useful to uncover and understand social aspects of population dynamics including …
Taming the Noise: Soundscape and Livability in a Technocratic City-State
For hypergrowing Singapore, noise is an issue of everyday life. As a public problem, noise can be very relative because it deeply relates to the level of tolerance, while tolerance to noise is socially conditioned. But in a city where virtually every public issue is subject to technocratic handling, sound and noise are considered techno-environmental problems that require technocratic remedies. Drawing on the growing literature on soundscape and …
In memoriam
10.1080/17441730.2022.2127198
Grandparenting and Intergenerational Solidarity in Singapore
Demographic, social, and structural changes are transforming intergenerational relationships and aging experiences in Asia. While multigenerational families have increased and the duration of grandparenting has lengthened, multigenerational households have declined. Grandparents are increasingly embedded in multigenerational support, care, and reciprocal relationships. The paper examines cognitive and affective dimensions of intergenerational sol…
Gavin Jones’ scholarship on divorce in Asia: Understanding trends, patterns, and implications
This paper highlights Professor Gavin Jones' seminal work on Asian divorce patterns, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia's Muslim communities. Beginning in the 1980s, Jones addressed the challenges of fragmented and often unreliable demographic data on divorce. With careful compilation and analysis of aggregate data, paired with firsthand surveys and ethnographic studies, he set a foundation for examining shifting divorce trends in Southeas…
Investigating demographic outcomes in the Covid-19 pandemic: Perspectives from Asia
Undoubtedly, the COVID-19 pandemic has had and will continue to have a profound influence on human society for many years to come. By now, it has resulted in an unmistakable impact on core demographic processes—mortality, fertility, migration, family and marriage, and health—all around the world. Its impact on the core components of demographic change undergirds many other changes that have transformed society, be it in the arena of healthcare, g…
Going against global marriage trends: The declining age at first marriage in Indonesia
Marriage is a key marker in the transition to adulthood across much of Asia. Globally, early marriages have declined, and marriage age has increased. This study examined changes in marriage timing for Indonesian women between 1965 and 2016 using multiple data sources, including registration, censuses, and surveys, and employed a robust methodology. The findings show that there was a steady decrease in the probability of first marriage between 196…
Transition to first marriage in Thailand: Cohort and educational changes
Age Gap Between Spouses in South and Southeast Asia
Age gap between spouses has important implications for a range of outcomes-from fertility and longevity, to gender relationships, marital quality, and stability. This paper examines the age gap between spouses in 12 countries in South and Southeast Asia. The average age difference (husband's minus wife's age) is positive in all countries and ranges from 2.7 in Myanmar to 8.4 in Bangladesh. Age homogamous marriages accounted for 5% of all marriage…
Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (11 works) · Demography (9 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (9 works)