Publications

Paper February 14, 2025

Prevalence of COVID-19 In Rural Versus Urban Areas in a Low-Income Country: Findings from a State-Wide Study in Karnataka, India

By Dr. Manoj Mohanan, Anu Acharya, Dr. Anup Malani & Kaushik Krishnan

Overall seroprevalence in the state implies that by August at least 31.5 million residents had been infected by August, nearly an order of magnitude larger than confirmed cases.

Blog February 13, 2025

How much of India is actually urban?

Ajai Sreevatsan discusses in Mint on how satellite images suggest that India’s urban population is more than twice of what is recorded in the Census.

Blog February 13, 2025

When economists look to the sky

Sumit Mishra writes in Mint on using data from satellite images to estimate the level of economic activity in regions.

Blog February 13, 2025

Big Data enters Indian policy

By Dr. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Economists have now begun to use machine learning—or the use of computer algorithms that learn from data—to extract information from satellite images.