Teacher Details

Rohini Varun Sahni

Department of Economics

rsahni@unipune.ac.in

Research Areas : Development Economics, gender, higher education in India, globalization and consumption cultures


1)    Kalyan Shankar, V., Sahni, R., Roy, K.K. (2024). Introducing computers in Indian schools: institutional resistances and the making of a digital divide. Learning, Media and Technology, 49 (1), ISSN(print/online): 1743-9884/1743-9892, URL/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2233898
2)    Kalyan Shankar, V., Deulgaonkar, I., Sahni, R. (2024). A functional typology of exclusions: why and how women fail to access government schemes in India?. Oxford Development Studies, 52 (3), 297-309. ISSN(print/online): 1360-0818/1469-9966, URL/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2024.2418382
3)    Shankar, V. K., Sahni, R. (2023). COVID-19 and Female Unpaid Labour. Economic and Political Weekly, 58 (6), 14-17. ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/6/commentary/covid-19-and-female-unpaid-labour.html
4)    Shankar, V.K., Sahni, R., Seshu, M.S., Pai, A., Murthy, L., Sevekari, T. (2022). Sex Work, COVID-19, and Half-truths: Results from a Multistate Survey of Sex Workers. Economic and Political Weekly, 57 (19), 49-56. ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/19/special-articles/sex-work-covid-19-and-half-truths.html
5)    Kalyan Shankar, V., Sahni, R. (2021). Sex Work, Sex Trafficking, and Myopia of the State. Economic and Political Weekly, 56 (43), 53-59. ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: https://www.epw.in/journal/2021/43/special-articles/sex-work-sex-trafficking-and-myopia-state.html?0=ip_login_no_cache%3D75deef369c12fc4f0409b0fd1777b1e3
6)    Shankar, V.K., Sahni, R. (2019). 'All I Want is One Job': The Fine Print of Education–Employment Linkages. Economic and Political Weekly, 54 (17), 1-9. ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: https://www.epw.in/engage/article/election-job-promise-education-employment
7)    Kalyan Shankar, V., Sahni, R. (2018). How demonetisation affected informal labour: Waste Chains in a city. Economic and Political Weekly, 53 (26-27), 75-82. ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2018_53/26-27/NO_LIII_26%2627_300618_V_Kalyan_Shankar.pdf
8)    Shankar, V.K., Sahni, R. (2018). Waste pickers and the 'right to waste' in an Indian City. Economic and Political Weekly, 53 (48), 54-62. ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: https://www.epw.in/journal/2018/48/special-articles/waste-pickers-and-%E2%80%98right-waste%E2%80%99-indian.html?0=ip_login_no_cache%3Df156ac226fab97f480bbd73287896c10
9)    Shankar, V.K., Sahni, R. (2017). The Inheritance of Precarious Labor: Three Generations in Waste Picking in an Indian City. WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 45 (3-4), 245-260. Google Scholar Citations, ISSN(print/online): 0732-1562/1934-1520, URL/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wsq.2017.0080
10)    Sahni, R., Kalyan Shankar, V. (2015). What Does an MA Know? Postgraduate Learning Deficits and the Diploma Disease in Social Sciences. Economic and Political Weekly, 50 (31), 40-48. ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2015_50/31/What_Does_an_MA_Know.pdf
11)    Sahni, R., Shankar, V.K. (2014). Match Fixing in Hyderabad: Engineer Brides, Software Grooms and Negotiated Matrimonies. Economic and Political Weekly, 49 (22), 131-138 . ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2014_49/22/Matchfixing_in_Hyderabad.pdf
12)    Sahni, R., Shankar, V.K. (2013). Sex Work and its Linkages with Informal Labour Markets in India: Findings from the First Pan-India Survey of Female Sex Workers. IDS Working Paper, 2013 (416), 1-51. Google Scholar Citations, ISSN(print/online): 1353-6141/2040-0209, URL/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2040-0209.2013.00416
13)    Sahni, R., Shankar, V.K. (2012). Girls’ Higher Education in India on the Road to Inclusiveness: On Track but Heading Where?’. Higher Education, 63 (2), 237-256. Google Scholar Citations, ISSN(print/online): 0018-1560/1573-174X, URL/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10734-011-9436-9
14)    Sahni, R., Shankar, V.K. (2011). Can Services Succeed Where Goods Have Tottered. Economic and Political Weekly, XLVI (28), 38-40. ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2011_46/28/Can_Services_Succeed_Where_Goods_Have_Tottered.pdf
  

Publications Before 2011
15)    Sahni, R., Shankar, V.K. (2010). Is there a twist in the tale? Reinterpreting economic ascendancies through the geographic lens. Economic and Political Weekly, 45 (1), 55-63. ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2010_45/01/Is_There_a_Twist_in_the_Tale_Reinterpreting_Economic_Ascendancies_through_a_Geographic_Lens.pdf
16)    Sahni, R., Shankar, V.K. (2009). What has Economics got to do with it? Cultures of Consumption in Global Markets. Economic and Political Weekly, 44 (1), 50-58. Google Scholar Citations, ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: http://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2009_44/01/What_Has_Economics_Got_to_Do_With_It_Cultures_of_Consumption_in_Global_Markets.pdf
17)    Sahni, R., Shankar, V.K. (2006). Romancing Material Culture in Urban Public Spaces-The case of Valentine's Day in Pune. Economic and Political Weekly, 41 (7), 649-654. Google Scholar Citations, ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4417844.pdf
18)    Sahni, R., Viswanath, S. (2005). Human Development Index of Maharashtra: A Reality Check. Economic and Political Weekly, XL (40), 4387. Google Scholar Citations, ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/4417236.pdf
19)    Sahni, R., Shankar, V.K. (2005). GATS and Higher Education: Revealing the Comparative Advantage. Economic and Political Weekly, 40 (47), 4947-4953. Google Scholar Citations, ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/4417429.pdf
20)    Sahni, R., Kale, S. (2004). GATS and Higher Education – Some Reflections. Economic and Political Weekly, 39 (21), 2174-2180. Google Scholar Citations, ISSN(print/online): 0012-9976/2349-8846, URL/DOI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4415067.pdf?acceptTC=true
21)    Sahni, R. (1999). The Economics of Amartya Sen. Samaj Prabodhan Patrika, 13-19. ISSN(print/online): 0973-2845.
22)    Sahni, R., (1992). Markets Reforms in Poland and to the East of Poland. Journal of International Relations, 55-66. ISSN(print/online): 0148-8937.
23)    Sahni, R. (1990). The price of reform: The economics of Perestroika. Newcastle University Journal, 24-30.
24)    Sahni, R. (1985). Health and Medical care in the Soviet Union, some issues. Bombay University Bulletin, 5-15.
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