K Jafar

Employment

• Madras Institute of Development Studies
  2017 - Present
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences Assistant Professor
  2017 - 2017
• Council for Social Development Southern Regional Centre Assistant Professor
  2017 - 2017
• Tata Institute of Social Sciences Visiting Faculty
  2016 - 2017
• Council for Social Development Southern Regional Centre ICSSR Post-Doctoral Fellow
  2014 - 2016
• Azim Premji University Research Associate
  2013 - 2014
• National Institute of Advanced Studies Research Associate
  2013 - 2013
• Centre For Development Studies Research Assistant
  2007 - 2007

Education

• National Institute of Advanced Studies PhD
  2007 - 2014
• University of Calicut MA Economics
  2004 - 2006

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (12)

• Between stigma and support: a qualitative inquiry into help-seeking behaviour for postpartum depression care in Kerala, India
  Sajna Panolan, Benson Thomas M, K. Jafar
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2026 DOI: 10.1186/s12884-026-08675-4
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• Mapping the Reasons and Treatment Gap of Postpartum Depression: A Qualitative Study from Kerala, India
  Sajna Panolan, K. Jafar
  Women's Reproductive Health 2026 DOI: 10.1080/23293691.2025.2582491
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• Economic Ripple Effects of COVID-19: A District-Level Panel Analysis of Jobs and Income in Tamil Nadu, India
  K. Jafar, Veerapandian Karthick, Gargi Sridharan

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  • Kripa Ananthpur
  • Lingappan Venkatachalam
  Journal of Quantitative Economics 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s40953-025-00473-7
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• Choice of substance use and its expenditure in India: Do socio-economic and demographic factors matter?
  Umanath Malaiarasan, K. Hafsal, K. Jafar
  Discover Social Science and Health 2025 DOI: 10.1007/s44155-025-00299-x
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• Flexibility, Vulnerability, and Inclusiveness in the Gig Economy: A Review of India’s Experience in the Context of Informalisation
  K. Jafar, U. G. Unnimaya, Umanath Malaiarasan
  Informal Economy and Sustainable Development Goals Ideas Interventions and Challenges 2024 DOI: 10.1108/978-1-83753-980-220241014
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• Migration and Urban Informal Labour Market: A Study of Labour Addas in the City of Hyderabad
  Poulomi Bhattacharya, K Jafar
  India Migration Report 2023 Student Migration 2024 DOI: 10.4324/9781003490234-19
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• Digital divide and access to online education: new evidence from Tamil Nadu, India
  K. Jafar, Kripa Ananthpur, Lingappan Venkatachalam
  Journal of Social and Economic Development 2023 DOI: 10.1007/s40847-023-00236-1
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• Access to Medicines and Performance of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Examining India’s Experience in the New Patent Regime
  K. Jafar, P. Sajna
  Journal of Health Management 2018 DOI: 10.1177/0972063418799157
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• Education and Its Discontents: Investigating Barriers to Schooling among De-notified and Nomadic Communities
  Kalpana Kannabirān, Sujit Kumar Mishra, Soumya Vinayan

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  Journal of Social Inclusion Studies 2018 DOI: 10.1177/2394481118774488
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• Education, Migration and Human Development: Kerala Experience
  Rawat Publications 2018
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• Reservation and Women’s Political Freedom: Candidates’ Experience from Three Gram Panchayats in Kerala, India
  K. Jafar
  Social Change 2013 DOI: 10.1177/0049085713475728
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• Mass Education-led Growth and Non-agrarian Villages: Long-term Results of the Kerala Model
  Narendar Pani, K. Jafar
  Oxford Development Studies 2010 DOI: 10.1080/13600810903548997
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