About the Authors

Nandita Saikia

nanditasts@gmail.com

Affiliation Centre for Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Jayanta Kumar Bora

Affiliation Public Health Foundation of India, Gurgaon, India

Domantas Jasilionis

Affiliation Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Vladimir M. Shkolnikov

Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, New Economic School, Moscow, Russia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NS JKB DJ VS. Performed the experiments: NS DJ. Analyzed the data: NS JKB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NS JKB DJ VS. Wrote the paper: NS JKB DJ VS.