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Publications

All publications that use NEEMSIS data are listed below. Each reference includes a link to the open-access version on HAL when available, and a link to the publisher’s webpage via the DOI.

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Ongoing research

Submitted:

  • Girollet, D., & Natal, A. How personality traits and social identity shape interpersonal networks of poor people? A case study in South India.
  • Mouchel, M. Interpersonal networks and individual employment trajectories in rural South India.
  • Natal, A. The Invisible Household Debt in the Global South: Evidence from India.
  • Natal, A. Tangled Up in Debt: Household Debt Trap and Its Effects on Spending in Rural India.
  • Natal, A., & Girollet, D. Social Proximity and Loan Termes: Evidence from Informal Credit Markets in Rural India.
  • Natal, A., & Nordman, C. J. She Works Hard for the Money: Debt Burden and Labour Supply in India.

Ongoing:

  • Ahmed, M. Evaluating the Impact of Microfinance on Women’s Economic Empowerment in India.
  • Awasthi, V. Determinants and Economic Outcomes of Trust: Evidence from India.
  • Di Santolo, M., & Natal, A. How intra-household inequality affect individuals’ indebtedness? Evidence from rural South India.
  • Di Santolo, M., & Nordman, C. J. Empowerment or Burden? Rethinking the Role of Financial Decision-Making Power.
  • Mouchel, C. & Nordman, C. J. Caste Inequalities through the Lens of Social Capital.
  • Mouchel, C. La centralité des intermédiaires d’emploi pour les emplois journaliers des basses castes.
  • Natal, A. Is There an Household or Individual Debt Trap? Evidence from Rural India.
  • Natal, A., & Nordman, C. J. Unveiling Inequalities in Rural South India: Household Income and Wealth Imbalances Between 2010 and 2026.
  • Singh, R. K. Social Networks and Household Economic Behaviour in rural Southern India.

Lists updated on: April 13, 2026.

Peer-reviewed articles
Authors Year Title Journal HAL DOI
Mouchel 2026 L’encadrement du pouvoir des intermédiaires d’emploi pour les travailleurs journaliers de basses castes dans les zones rurales d’Inde du Sud Esclavages & post-esclavages
Natal & Nordman 2026 A Change is Gonna Come: Universality, Stability, and Shocks in Personality Traits in Rural India Journal of Development Studies HAL DOI
Nordman et al. 2025 Networks, Employment, Debt, Mobilities, and Skills in India Survey (NEEMSIS): A longitudinal data collection tool Population HAL DOI
Guérin et al. 2025 For money can’t buy me love? The political economy of marriages at the time of financialization Contemporary South Asia HAL DOI
Natal & Nordman 2025 Psychology of Debt in Rural South India Journal of Development Studies HAL DOI
Di Santolo et al. 2024 A Decade in Rural Tamil Nadu: Socio-Economic, Labour and Migration Trends from an Original Longitudinal Household Survey Economic & Political Weekly HAL
Guérin & Venkatasubramanian 2024 Debt and the Politics of Numbers: Hegemonic Numbers, Political Numbers, Ordinary Numbers Review of Political Economy HAL DOI
Natal & Nordman 2022 Locus de contrôle, identité sociale et endettement en Inde du Sud Revue d’Economie du Développement HAL DOI
Guérin, Nordman & Mouchel 2022 With a Little Help From My Friends? Surviving the Lockdown Using Social Networks in Rural South India South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal HAL DOI
Guérin et al. 2022 Surviving Debt and Survival Debt in Times of Lockdown Economic & Political Weekly HAL
Michiels, Nordman & Seetahul 2021 Many Rivers to Cross: Social Identity, Cognition, and Labor Mobility in Rural India The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science HAL DOI
Reboul, Guérin & Nordman 2021 The gender of debt and credit: Insights from rural Tamil Nadu World Development HAL DOI
Guérin et al. 2017 Insights on Demonetisation from Rural Tamil Nadu: understanding social networks and social protection Economic & Political Weekly HAL
Chapters in book
Authors Year Title Book HAL DOI
Natal & Nordman 2026 Inégalités et mobilité de revenu dans des villages indiens : Résultats issus d’une micro-enquête longitudinale (2010-2020) Les Angles Morts des Inégalités
Guérin et al. 2020 There Has Been No Silent Revolution: A Decade of Empowerment for Women in Rural Tamil Nadu Advances in women’s empowerment: Critical insights from Asia, Africa and Latin America HAL DOI
Books

Authors/Editors Year Title Publisher HAL DOI
Guérin 2026 La femme endettée. À l’ombre de la finance mondialisée La Découverte HAL
Guérin, Kumar & Venkatasubramanian 2023 The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism Stanford University Press HAL
Doctoral dissertations
Authors Year Title University HAL
Mouchel 2025 Réseaux interpersonnels et trajectoires d’emploi individuelles dans les zones rurales d’Inde du Sud Paris Cité University
Di Santolo 2024 Four essays on gender in rural India Paris Dauphine University HAL
Natal 2023 Debt, Labour, and Cognition: Microeconomic Interactions in Rural South India University of Bordeaux HAL
Reboul 2021 Gender and Debt, Past and Present: Financing Social Reproduction Paris Cité University
Hilger 2018 Cognitive and non-cognitive skills in developing countries PSL Research University HAL
Michiels 2016 Modernisation, marchés du travail et circulation en Inde : Une approche mixte et multi-scalaire des migrations de travail University of Bordeaux HAL
Accreditation to supervise research

Authors Year Title University HAL
Nordman 2018 Compétences, Réseaux, Travail et Inégalités de Trajectoires dans les Pays en Développement Paris Dauphine University HAL
Working papers
Authors Year Title Serie HAL
Natal & Nordman 2025 She Works Hard for the Money: Debt Burden and Labour Supply in India DIAL
Hilger & Nordman 2020 The Determinants of Trust: Evidence from Rural South India IZA HAL