Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra
Postdoctoral research associate
Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the STEP program in the Woodrow Wilson School. Pratikshya received her PhD in Demography and Public Policy from the Woodrow Wilson School and the Office of Population Research in May 2011. As a Researcher at STEP, she is currently exploring the human response to climate change with a primary focus on the link between human migration patterns and climate change.
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND EDITED BOOK CHAPTER
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya. 2012. “Labour Migration and Investments by Remaining Households in Rural Nepal.” Journal of Population Research, (DOI) 10.1007/s12546-012-9097-2: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12546-012-9097-2
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya. 2012. “Motivations to Remit: Evidence from Chitwan, Nepal.” Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences." iFirst, 1-19, 2012: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21582041.2012.709637#preview
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya & Douglas S. Massey. 2011. “Individual Decisions to Migrate During Civil Conflict.” Demography. Vol. 48, No. 2: 401-424: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365856/
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya & Douglas S. Massey. 2011. “Environmental Degradation and Out-Migration: New Evidence from Nepal.” In Migration, Environment and Climate Change. Ed. Etienne Piguet, Antoine Pécoud and Paul de Guchteneire. UNESCO Book: http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9781107662254
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya. 2011. “Nepalese Migrants in the United States of America: Perspectives on their Exodus, Assimilation Pattern and Commitment to Nepal.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Vol. 37, No. 9: 1527-1537: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369183X.2011.623626
Bohra, Pratikshya, & Douglas S. Massey. 2009. “Processes of Internal and International Migration from Chitwan, Nepal.” International Migration Review. Vol. 43, No. 3: 621-651: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc3060790/
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya and Douglas S. Massey. 2013. “Intermarriage among New Immigrants to the United States.” Revise and submit.
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya. 2013. “Dietary Assimilation and Health among New Immigrants in the US.” Submitted.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya. 2013. “Dietary Assimilation and Health among New Immigrants in the US.” Submitted.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya, Michael Oppenheimer, Ruohong Cai, Rachel Licker and Solomon Hsiang. "Migration and Climate Change: the Case of Philippines."
Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya and Michael Oppenheimer. “Migration of Whole Households in Response to Sudden and Long Term Environmental Changes.”
Cai, Ruohong, Michael Oppenheimer, Rachel Licker and Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra. “Environmental Problems and Migration Intention.”
Sanchez-Soto, Gabriela and Pratikshya Bohra-Mishra. “Assortative Mating among New Immigrants in the US.”