I am a graduate student in the Department of Sociology, and an affiliate of the Population Research Institute at Penn State University. This is my fifth year in the dual-degree program in sociology and demography. At the very broadest level, I am interested in population issues in less-developed countries.


  Fields of Specialization | Education | Experience | Research | Professional Affiliations | Ph.D. Committee

Fields of Specialization

Maternal and child health, Health inequalities, Vulnerable adolescents and transitions to adulthood,  Quantitative methods

Dissertation: “Child Health in India – Trends, Determinants, and Inequalities”

Education

Ph.D. Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University, 2010 (expected)

M.A. Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2005

B.A. Economics (Minor: French), University of Texas at Austin, 2003

B.A. Economics and Political Science, Osmania University, India, 2001

Experience

2009 June              Consultant, Population Council and UNFPA, Malawi

2009 Summer         Research coordinator, MSQS, Population Council, Malawi

2008 November     Interviewer, Study on infertility among women in Accra, Ghana

2008 October         Consultant, Population Council and UNFPA, Liberia

2008 Summer         Research intern, Population Council, New York

2005-07                 Graduate research assistant, Department of Sociology, Penn State

2003-05                 Graduate teaching assistant, School of Business, University of Texas 

Research

Published work:

 

Hook, Jennifer L., and Satvika Chalasani. “Gendered expectations? Reconsidering single fathers’ childcare time”. 2008. Forthcoming in The Journal of Marriage and the Family

 

Chalasani, Satvika. 2007. “The changing relationship between parents’ education and their time with children”. International Journal of Time Use Research 4(1): 93-117

 

Work under review:

 

Chalasani, Satvika, John B. Casterline, and Michael A. Koenig. “Unwanted childbearing and child survival in Bangladesh” [Revise and resubmit]

 

Chalasani, Satvika. “Prenatal care and infant health in India”. [Under review]

 

Work in progress:

 

Chalasani, Satvika, Abhishek Singh, and Michael A. Koenig, “Consequences of unwanted fertility for maternal and child health in India”

 

Hewett, Paul, and Satvika Chalasani, “Accuracy of adolescent reporting of household characteristics in rural Malawi”

 

Casterline, John B., Satvika Chalasani, Michael A. Koenig, and Carel van Mels “Unwanted childbearing and children’s educational attainment in Bangladesh”        

 

Casterline, John B., and Satvika Chalasani. “Young women and childbearing in Africa: The new skepticism”

 

Professional Affiliations

Member, Population Association of America

Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population

Ph.D. Committee

Glenn Firebaugh, Chair (Sociology, Penn State)

John Casterline (Sociology, Ohio State)

Nancy Landale (Sociology, Penn State)

David Shapiro (Economics, Penn State)

Shannon Stokes (Rural Sociology, Penn State)