Manjistha Banerji is a Fellow at National Council of Applied Economic Research. Her primary areas of research are family demography, social change and gender, migration, education and development and survey methods. At the National Data Innovation Centre at the Council, she is involved with experimentations on different data collection techniques in the Delhi Metropolitan Area, telephonic surveys to assess the impact of the COVID pandemic in Delhi NCR and in questionnaire design for the upcoming round of India Human Development Survey. She completed her PhD in 2012 from the Department of Sociology, University of Maryland at College Park.
Journal| Children First: Journal on Children’s Lives
Learning disruptions during COVID: Findings from a survey in the National Capital Region
Manjistha Banerji | Reem Ashraf
August 2022
Journal | Asian Population Studies
Does ‘Love’ make a difference? Marriage choice and post-marriage decision-making power in India
Manjistha Banerji | Ashwini S. Deshpande
2020
Policy Brief | IHDS Website
A Glass Half Full: Changes in Standard of Living since 2012
Manjistha Banerji | Sonalde Desai | Debasis Barik | Dinesh Tiwari | O.P. Sharma
2020
Journal | Indian Growth and Development Review
Inequality in the Labor Market: Lower Perceived Returns among Marginalized Youths and Girls,
M. Banerji and A. Deshpande
2018
Journal | Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
One step forward, two steps back: transitions between home, pre- primary and primary education in rural India
Benjamin Alcott | Manjistha Banerji | Suman Bhattacharjea | Mansi Nanda | Purnima Ramanujan
2018
Journal | Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy
Marriage in People with Epilepsy: A compelling theme for psycho- behavioral research
Gagandeep Singh | Kalyan K. Ganguly | Manjistha Banerji | Renu Addlakha | Urvashi Shah | Manjari Tripathi | Vinod Saxena | Hitant Vohra | Yashoda Wakankar | Meenakshi Sharma | Kurupath Radhakrishnan
2018
Report | The India Early Childhood Education Impact Study
V. Kaul, S. Bhattacharjea, A. B. Chaudhary, P. Ramanujan, M. Banerji and M. Nanda
2017
Journal | Journal of Population Research
Negotiated Identities: Male Migration and Left Behind Wives in India
Sonalde Desai | Manjistha Banerji
2008
Book Chapter | Routledge Publications
Are the Young and the Educated More Likely to Have “Love” than Arranged Marriage? A Study of Autonomy in Partner Choice in India. India’s Social and Economic Transformation in 21st Century, New Delhi
2023
Book Chapter | Springer Publications
Till what age is “age” relevant? Examining the effect of age on early learning.
M. Banerji and M. Nanda | V. Kaul and S. Bhattacharjea (eds.)
2019
Book Chapter | Springer Publications
Does participation in preschool help children’s early grade learning?
W. Wadhwa, S. Bhattacharjea and M. Banerji| V. Kaul and S. Bhattacharjea (eds.)
2019
Book Chapter | Orient Blackswan
Negotiating Marriage: Examining the Gap between Marriage and Cohabitation in India
Lester Andrist, M. Banerji and S. Desai| R. Kaur and R. Palriwala (eds.)
2013
Opinion | The Economic Times (ET Prime)
Class struggle for students
Manjistha Banerji | Reem Ashraf | Sonalde Desai
February 20, 2021
Opinion | live Mint
Marital choice shapes women’s stay at home
January 19, 2021
OPINION | Pioneer
Marriage by choice or convention?
A. Mehta and M. Banerji
2018
OPINION | The Telegraph
On a downward slope
M. Banerji and A. Deshpande
2018
OPINION | IndiaSpend
Beyond Universal Enrolment in Indian Schools, Low Attendance, High Dropouts
M. Banerji and A. Deshpande
2017