PSC In The News
Stafford, Schoeni, and Chen find many Americans making little headway against debt
Wightman and Schoeni find most young adults helped financially by parents
Johnston says decline in perceived risk contributes to rise in marijuana use among teens
Patrick calls increase in newborns undergoing drug withdrawal a public health epidemic
Danziger discusses use of IRS data in trend analyses of income distribution
Highlights
Research Professor position in international family demography, PSC/SRC
Pamela Smock elected president of the Association of Population Centers
Elisha Renne awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for African studies
Bob Groves leaving Census Bureau for Georgetown University
Join us in the fall
for more brown bag presentations
Follow us 
Raj Arunachalam
Funded Research:
Collaborative Research: Divorce and the Political Gender Gap (NSF)
Incentives for Life (Freedman)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center, ISR.
Assistant Professor, Economics.
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Arunachalam's research concentrations are in development economics and economic history. Recent work examines the impact of family planning on dowry transfers in Bangladesh.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Arunachalam, Raj, and M. Shah. 2008. "Prostitutes and brides?" American Economic Review, 98(2): 516-522. DOI. Local Access.
Other Reports
Arunachalam, Raj, and Trevon Logan. 2008. "Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?" NBER Working Paper No. 13905.