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Ridhi Kashyap

PhD
Professor of Demography and Computational Social Science

My research spans different areas of demography, including questions linked to mortality and population health, gender inequality, marriage and family, and migration and ethnicity.

I have worked on the demographic manifestations and implications of son preference as one of the most striking ways in which gender inequality interacts with demographic behaviours. In the areas of family demography, I have been studying the relationship between educational expansion, gender norms, and marriage and partnership patterns in different contexts. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have worked on different aspects of the social and demographic impacts of the pandemic, including topics such as the pandemic’s mortality impacts in cross-national perspective and information-seeking dynamics and the role of trust in science for public health.

A central interest of my research has been to leverage computational approaches for demographic research within the growing area of Digital and Computational Demography, and forge links between demography and a growing interdisciplinary community of computational social science. Within the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, I co-lead the strand on Digital and Computational Science.

From a methodological standpoint, I am interested in how computational methods (e.g agent-based models, microsimulation, machine learning) and new data streams (e.g digital trace data from the web and social media), can contribute to the study of population dynamics and social inequalities. An example of this is provided on www.digitalgendergaps.org, where we use social media data together with survey data to nowcast global digital gender inequalities in internet and mobile access, a global sustainable development goal (SDG) indicator for which there is a significant data gap.

From a substantive standpoint, I am interested in the impacts of mobile and internet technologies, and digitalisation more broadly, on demographic and sustainable development outcomes, such as gender inequalities, population health and empowerment.

Research areas: demography, digital and computational demography, computational social science, gender, sustainable development, mortality and population health, family, migration

 

Publications

Wednesday, 05 March 2025
Bongaarts, J., Kashyap, R. and Van Hook, J. (2025) “Preface”, Population and Development Review [Preprint].
Ridhi Kashyap
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Darin, E., Leasure, D. and Kashyap, R. (2025) “How accurate are high resolution settlement maps at predicting population counts in data scarce settings?”, OSF Preprints.
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 31 January 2025
Kashyap, R. and Nur, A. (2025) “Fifty Years of Population and Development Review: Shifting Research Themes, Authorship, and Academic Impact in Comparative Perspective”, Population and Development Review [Preprint].
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 20 September 2024
Abdel Ghany, J. et al. (2024) “Temperature and Sex Ratios at Birth”, OSF Preprints.
Ridhi Kashyap
Tuesday, 06 August 2024
Koebe, T. et al. (2024) “Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health behaviours across Africa”, Social Science and Medicine, 357.
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 19 July 2024
Gupta, A. et al. (2024) “Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020”, Science Advances, 10(29).
Ridhi Kashyap
Thursday, 18 July 2024
Rotondi, V. et al. (2024) “Enduring maternal brain changes and their role in mediating motherhood’s impact on well-being”, Scientific Reports, 14(1).
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 31 May 2024
Kalhor, G. et al. (2024) “Gender gaps in online social connectivity, promotion and relocation reports on LinkedIn”, in Vol. 18 (2024): Proceedings of the Eighteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 800–812.
Ridhi Kashyap
Monday, 01 January 2024
Degtiareva, E. et al. (2024) “Cause-Specific Excess Mortality in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, medRxiv.
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 25 August 2023
Kalhor, G. et al. (2023) “Gender Gaps in Online Social Connectivity, Promotion and Relocation Reports on LinkedIn”, arXiv.
Ridhi Kashyap
Thursday, 01 June 2023
Qian, W. et al. (2023) “Demographic inequalities in digital spaces in China: The case of Weibo”, in Workshop Proceedings of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Ridhi Kashyap
Monday, 29 May 2023
Gupta, A. et al. (2023) “Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020”, SocArXiv.
Ridhi Kashyap
Thursday, 06 April 2023
Leasure, D. et al. (2023) “Nowcasting daily population displacement in Ukraine through social media advertising data”, Population and Development Review, 49(2), pp. 231–254.
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 31 March 2023
Kashyap, R. et al. (2023) “Digital and computational demography”, in Skopek, J. (ed.) Research Handbook on Digital Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 48–86.
Ridhi Kashyap
Monday, 27 February 2023
Zhao, X. et al. (2023) “A gender perspective on the global migration of scholars”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(10).
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 03 February 2023
Aburto, J. et al. (2023) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, Science Advances, 9(5).
Ridhi Kashyap
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Kashyap, R. and Zagheni, E. (2023) “Leveraging digital and computational demography for policy insights”, in Bertoni, E. et al. (eds.) Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy. Springer, pp. 327–344.
Ridhi Kashyap
Monday, 17 October 2022
Schöley, J. et al. (2022) “Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, Nature Human Behaviour, 6, pp. 1649–1659.
Ridhi Kashyap
Thursday, 01 September 2022
Varriale, C. et al. (2022) “Corrigendum of Article: ‘Mobile Phones and Attitudes toward Women’s Participation in Politics: Evidence from Africa,’ Sociology of Development , 2022, 8(1): 1–37.”, Sociology of Development, 8(3), pp. 351–353.
Ridhi Kashyap
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Schöley, J. et al. (2022) “Bounce backs amid continued losses: Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, medRxiv.
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8 Mar 2025

Digital Gender Gaps dashboard updated to include subnational estimates

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19 Jul 2024

Shorter life expectancy during COVID-19 for India’s marginalised

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11 Apr 2024

The world's first Cybercrime Index

Ridhi Kashyap

PhD
Professor of Demography and Computational Social Science
This is the alt text
Email
ridhi.kashyap@demography.ox.ac.uk
Links
Google Scholar
LinkedIn
Twitter
BlueSky

My research spans different areas of demography, including questions linked to mortality and population health, gender inequality, marriage and family, and migration and ethnicity.

I have worked on the demographic manifestations and implications of son preference as one of the most striking ways in which gender inequality interacts with demographic behaviours. In the areas of family demography, I have been studying the relationship between educational expansion, gender norms, and marriage and partnership patterns in different contexts. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I have worked on different aspects of the social and demographic impacts of the pandemic, including topics such as the pandemic’s mortality impacts in cross-national perspective and information-seeking dynamics and the role of trust in science for public health.

A central interest of my research has been to leverage computational approaches for demographic research within the growing area of Digital and Computational Demography, and forge links between demography and a growing interdisciplinary community of computational social science. Within the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, I co-lead the strand on Digital and Computational Science.

From a methodological standpoint, I am interested in how computational methods (e.g agent-based models, microsimulation, machine learning) and new data streams (e.g digital trace data from the web and social media), can contribute to the study of population dynamics and social inequalities. An example of this is provided on www.digitalgendergaps.org, where we use social media data together with survey data to nowcast global digital gender inequalities in internet and mobile access, a global sustainable development goal (SDG) indicator for which there is a significant data gap.

From a substantive standpoint, I am interested in the impacts of mobile and internet technologies, and digitalisation more broadly, on demographic and sustainable development outcomes, such as gender inequalities, population health and empowerment.

Research areas: demography, digital and computational demography, computational social science, gender, sustainable development, mortality and population health, family, migration

 

Publications

Wednesday, 05 March 2025
Bongaarts, J., Kashyap, R. and Van Hook, J. (2025) “Preface”, Population and Development Review [Preprint].
Ridhi Kashyap
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Darin, E., Leasure, D. and Kashyap, R. (2025) “How accurate are high resolution settlement maps at predicting population counts in data scarce settings?”, OSF Preprints.
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 31 January 2025
Kashyap, R. and Nur, A. (2025) “Fifty Years of Population and Development Review: Shifting Research Themes, Authorship, and Academic Impact in Comparative Perspective”, Population and Development Review [Preprint].
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 20 September 2024
Abdel Ghany, J. et al. (2024) “Temperature and Sex Ratios at Birth”, OSF Preprints.
Ridhi Kashyap
Tuesday, 06 August 2024
Koebe, T. et al. (2024) “Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health behaviours across Africa”, Social Science and Medicine, 357.
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 19 July 2024
Gupta, A. et al. (2024) “Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020”, Science Advances, 10(29).
Ridhi Kashyap
Thursday, 18 July 2024
Rotondi, V. et al. (2024) “Enduring maternal brain changes and their role in mediating motherhood’s impact on well-being”, Scientific Reports, 14(1).
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 31 May 2024
Kalhor, G. et al. (2024) “Gender gaps in online social connectivity, promotion and relocation reports on LinkedIn”, in Vol. 18 (2024): Proceedings of the Eighteenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, pp. 800–812.
Ridhi Kashyap
Monday, 01 January 2024
Degtiareva, E. et al. (2024) “Cause-Specific Excess Mortality in the US During the COVID-19 Pandemic”, medRxiv.
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 25 August 2023
Kalhor, G. et al. (2023) “Gender Gaps in Online Social Connectivity, Promotion and Relocation Reports on LinkedIn”, arXiv.
Ridhi Kashyap
Thursday, 01 June 2023
Qian, W. et al. (2023) “Demographic inequalities in digital spaces in China: The case of Weibo”, in Workshop Proceedings of the 17th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Ridhi Kashyap
Monday, 29 May 2023
Gupta, A. et al. (2023) “Large and unequal life expectancy declines during the COVID-19 pandemic in India in 2020”, SocArXiv.
Ridhi Kashyap
Thursday, 06 April 2023
Leasure, D. et al. (2023) “Nowcasting daily population displacement in Ukraine through social media advertising data”, Population and Development Review, 49(2), pp. 231–254.
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 31 March 2023
Kashyap, R. et al. (2023) “Digital and computational demography”, in Skopek, J. (ed.) Research Handbook on Digital Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 48–86.
Ridhi Kashyap
Monday, 27 February 2023
Zhao, X. et al. (2023) “A gender perspective on the global migration of scholars”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(10).
Ridhi Kashyap
Friday, 03 February 2023
Aburto, J. et al. (2023) “A global assessment of the impact of violence on lifetime uncertainty”, Science Advances, 9(5).
Ridhi Kashyap
Tuesday, 24 January 2023
Kashyap, R. and Zagheni, E. (2023) “Leveraging digital and computational demography for policy insights”, in Bertoni, E. et al. (eds.) Handbook of Computational Social Science for Policy. Springer, pp. 327–344.
Ridhi Kashyap
Monday, 17 October 2022
Schöley, J. et al. (2022) “Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, Nature Human Behaviour, 6, pp. 1649–1659.
Ridhi Kashyap
Thursday, 01 September 2022
Varriale, C. et al. (2022) “Corrigendum of Article: ‘Mobile Phones and Attitudes toward Women’s Participation in Politics: Evidence from Africa,’ Sociology of Development , 2022, 8(1): 1–37.”, Sociology of Development, 8(3), pp. 351–353.
Ridhi Kashyap
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
Schöley, J. et al. (2022) “Bounce backs amid continued losses: Life expectancy changes since COVID-19”, medRxiv.
Ridhi Kashyap
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Recent

news
8 Mar 2025

Digital Gender Gaps dashboard updated to include subnational estimates

news
19 Jul 2024

Shorter life expectancy during COVID-19 for India’s marginalised

news
11 Apr 2024

The world's first Cybercrime Index

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