Research

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

1. Natal, A., & Nordman, C. J. (2026). A Change is Gonna Come: Universality, Stability, and Shocks in Personality Traits in Rural India. Journal of Development Studies (forthcoming).
   • Preprint version available on HAL <hal-05387263>
2. Guérin, I., Natal, A., Nordman, C. J., & Venkatasubramanian, G. (2025). For Money Can’t Buy Me Love? The Political Economy of Marriages at the Time of Financialization. Contemporary South Asia, 33(2), 281-300.
   • Preprint version available on HAL <hal-05072540>
3. Nordman, C. J., Venkatasubramanian, G., Guérin, I., Natal, A., Mouchel, C., Michiels, S., & Di Santolo, M. (2025). Networks, Employment, Debt, Mobilities, and Skills in India Survey (NEEMSIS): A Longitudinal Data Collection Tool. Population, 80(1), 79-93.
   • Preprint version available on HAL <hal-05515015>
4. Natal, A., & Nordman, C. J. (2025). Psychology of Debt in Rural South India. Journal of Development Studies, 61(7), 1042-1057.
   • Preprint version available on HAL <hal-04962956>
5. Di Santolo, M., Guérin, I., Michiels, S., Mouchel, C., Natal, A., Nordman, C. J., & Venkatasubramanian, G. (2024). A Decade in Rural Tamil Nadu: Socio-Economic, Labour and Migration Trends from an Original Longitudinal Household Survey. Economic & Political Weekly, 59(43), 62-71.
   • Preprint version available on HAL <hal-04757717>
6. Natal, A., & Nordman, C. J. (2022). Locus of Control, Social Identity, and Indebtedness in South India. Revue d’Économie du Développement, 31(2-3), 95–101.
   • Preprint version available on HAL <hal-04098417>
7. Guérin, I., Michiels, S., Natal, A., Nordman, C. J., & Venkatasubramanian, G. (2022). Surviving Debt and Survival Debt in Times of Lockdown. Economic & Political Weekly, 57(1), 41–49.
   • Preprint version available on HAL <hal-03509592>

Book chapters

1. Natal, A., & Nordman, C. J. (2026). Inégalités de Revenu, Caste et Mobilité en Inde Rurale : Dix Ans de Transformations au Tamil Nadu. In A.Tizziani, I.Georges, R.Chevrillon-Guibert, & R. Hawi (Eds.), Les Angles Morts des Inégalités: Dialogues disciplinaires, territoriales et thématiques dans les Suds. IRD Editions. (forthcoming)

Submitted

1. How Many Indebted Households Worldwide? A Global Estimate of Everyday Household Debt, with I. Guérin.
   • WP available on HAL <hal-05547460>
2. How Personality Traits Interact with Social Identity in the Formation of Social Networks? A Case Study in South India, with D. Girollet.
   • WP available on HAL <hal-05547405>
3. The Gender of Debt, Agrarian Transition and Social Reproduction, with I. Guérin.
4. Tangled Up in Debt: Household Debt Rollover Strategies and Spending in Rural India.
5. The Invisible Household Debt in the Global South: Evidence from India.
6. Social Proximity and Loan Terms: Evidence from Informal Credit Markets in Rural India, wth D. Girollet.
7. Big Five Personality Traits and Locus of Control: Challenges and Uses in the Global South, with C. J. Nordman.
8. Insights and Challenges of Integrated Small-scale Longitudinal Household Surveys in Rural Areas of the Global South, with C. J. Nordman.
9. She Works Hard for the Money: Debt Burden and Labour Supply in India, with C. J. Nordman.
   • WP available on HAL <hal-05553769>

In progress

1. Intra-household Inequality and Indebtedness: Evidence from Rural South India, with M. Di Santolo.
2. Determinants of Household Debt Rollover in Thailand and Vietnam.
3. The Changing Structure of Rural Credit in South India: The Evolution of Individual Borrowing Practices Over the Last Decade
4. Wealth Accumulation in Rural South India: Changes Between 2010 and 2026, with C. J. Nordman.
5. Multidimensional Poverty and Jatis in India: Evidence from NFHS-4, with C. J. Nordman.

Policy briefs

1. The Scale of Debt: Estimating Everyday Household Indebtedness Worldwide, ODRIIS Policy Brief No. 5, with I. Guérin. <hal-05500846>
   • Also available on the CADTM website.
2. On the importance of measuring personality traits in household surveys, ODRIIS Policy Brief No. 3, with B. Kar, and C. J. Nordman. (2025). <hal-05032232>
3. Measuring, regulating and preventing household debt to better combat poverty, ODRIIS Policy Brief No. 2, with S. Michiels, I. Guérin, and T. Narring. (2025). <05023697> (accepted by the UNHR for the final report of the “Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth”)
4. Why and how to measure household debt in informal economies?, ODRIIS Policy Brief No. 1, with I. Guérin, and G. Venkatasubramanian. (2024). <04622836>

Blog post

1. Are Personality Traits Stable in India? Evidence from Demonetisation and Covid-19, Ideas for India, with C. J. Nordman. (2026) [Available here »]
2. Inégalités de revenu et de patrimoine en Inde du Sud: Résultats à partir d’une micro-enquête longitudinale, Maison des Sciences Humaines de Bordeaux (MSH), with C. J. Nordman. (2025) [Available here »]
3. Apports et défis des micro-enquêtes longitudinales pour l’étude des inégalités en Inde rurale, Maison des Sciences Humaines de Bordeaux (MSH), with I. Guérin, C. J. Nordman, and G. Venkatasubramanian. (2024) [Available here »]
4. The Urgent Need to Better Measure Household Debt, Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM), with S. Michiels, I. Guérin, and T. Narring. (2025) [Available here »]

Technical reports

1. Rapport d’Enquête Création d’une revue d’articles sur des jeux de données Data Journal SHS, Tech. rep. No. hal-04541094, with L. Bizien, V. Cohoner, F. Edmond, and P. Peraldi-Mittelette. (2024). MSH Lorraine

Data

1. Network, Employment, dEbt, Mobility, and Skills in South India Survey (NEEMSIS-2, 2020-2021), with C. J. Nordman, G. Venkatasubramanian, I. Guérin, S. Michiels, C. Mouchel, and M. Di Santolo. (2025). DataSuds. DOI 10.23708/D7NADX
2. NEEMSIS-1 wave data, with C. J. Nordman, I. Guérin, G. Venkatasubramanian, S. Michiels, Y. Lanos, A. Hilger, S. Kumar, and A. Raj. (2023). Harvard Dataverse. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/KN3KFJ
3. RUME survey data, with I. Guérin, G. Venkatasubramanian, S. Michiels, and M. Roesch. (2023). Harvard Dataverse. DOI: 10.7910/DVN/2KVFXG