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We've just added two new working papers to rice's research tab. The first, by Diane Coffey, Reetika Khera, and Dean Spears, "Women's status and children's height in India: Evidence from joint rural households" examines joint rural households in India to...Read More..

Lawrence Haddad of the Institute of Development Studies has been kind enough to review rice's recent paper on the international link between sanitation and stunting on his blog Development Horizons. He makes several interesting points, including, quite correctly, that the...Read More..

Hello! I'm writing from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where we are one day into an exciting workshop organized by the Gates Foundation about learning from monitoring and evaluation of sanitation projects. I'll write more about that tomorrow, after a day of...Read More..

The community-led total sanitation website at the Institute of Development Studies has recently posted a four-page research brief summarizing rice's findings on the importance of open defecation for children's height and stunting. You can read it online at: http://www.communityledtotalsanitation.org/resource/sanitation-and-stunting-how-much-international-variation-child-height-can-open-defecation hat...Read More..

Thanks to Jenny Lah for sharing this article on early life health in India by Simon Denyer of the Washington Post. The graphic that accompanies the story is especially well done. Thanks Jenny!...Read More..

Much of my work these days has been about the importance of sanitaiton for children's health and growth into tall, smart adults. This is especially important in India, where over half of housholds do not use toilets or latrines. The...Read More..

Sometimes, when people think of how to address poor health in India, they think of expanding access to health care. But, as this new study published in Health Affairs recently by Jishnu Das, Alaka Holla, Veena Das, Manoj Mohanan, Diana...Read More..

We are proud to announce that the data from the Northwest India Migration and NREGA Study have been posted under the data tab for public use. Check it out for more information! We would especially like to thank Professor Pulugurtha...Read More..

I came across this article in the New York Times a couple of days ago. In brief, it is a follow up on a previous article that reports on Officer DePrimo, of the New York City police force, who purchased...Read More..

November 19th is World Toilet Day: http://www.worldtoiletday.org/   I confess I don't know where the $1 to $5 comes from, and I wouldn't focus on respiratory infections, but instead chronic intestinal disease keeping children from growing healthy, tall, and smart...Read More..

As you probably already know, rice is in the midst of a special fundraising campaign. If we can secure pledges for around $1,200 a month by the beginning of 2013, then an important, large donor is likely to multiply that...Read More..

Milk and babies seem like things that go together. It turns out that many rural Indian moms think so too. Here is a graph of the fraction of rural infants under 1 year of age who were fed cow’s milk...Read More..

So many of you have been kind enough to tell us that, when rice is ready and needs it, you’ll be ready to help. That time has now come. In the past year, we have produced leading research about the...Read More..

Economic and Political Weekly argues that "Indians have to accept that sanitation is not a dirty word." http://www.epw.in/editorials/toilets-can-be-temples.html All of this comes out of the "Nirmal Bharat Yatra" -- a cross-country trip intended to raise awareness and support for the...Read More..

Check out this video of Diane and Dean's mentor and friend, Dr. Jeff Hammer. Jeff is a professor in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He presented his insights about health care in India at a conference at Columbia...Read More..

We're excited to announce that rice will be hosting a conference in Delhi in the summer of 2013, along with our partners, the World Bank Water and Sanitation Programme, SHARE at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and...Read More..