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Social disadvantage, economic inequality, and life expectancy in nine Indian states
An extensive literature documents the contributions of discrimination and social exclusion to health disparities. This study investigates...
- Research, Social Hierarchy
EPW published a review of Dean's book 'Air'
The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) recently published a review of Dean’s new book 'Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India’s Choice...
- Blog Post
Understanding high mortality among private facility births in rural Uttar Pradesh
In the last 15 years, there has been a large increase in facility births and a large decline in home births across India. In Uttar Prades...
- Research, Maternal Health
Using mobile phone surveys to measure levels, trends, and disparities in mental health
This Policy Brief summarizes and presents policy recommendations based on research in 'Measurement of population mental health: Evidence ...
- Policy Outreach, Social Hierarchy
Discrimination and women's mental health
This Policy Brief presents recommendations based on research in 'When women eat last: Discrimination at home and women’s mental health' a...
- Policy Outreach, Social Hierarchy
Notes from the Webinar on 'Gender and Mental Health in Bihar and India: Developing tools for effective measurement'
r.i.c.e, in collaboration with the International Growth Centre (IGC), organised a webinar titled 'Gender and Mental Health in Bihar and I...
- Blog Post
Developing tools for the effective measurement of Mental Health
The Social Attitudes Research, India (SARI) is a mobile phone-based survey that tests the performance of two different questionnaires to ...
- Policy Outreach
Check out Lovey's photo essay on Barriers to Clean Fuel Use published in EPW!
The Pradhan Mantri _Ujjawala_ Yojna reportedly provided 80 million households in India with LPG connection by the end of 2019. However, r...
- Blog Post
Explicit Prejudice: Evidence from a New Survey
This paper uses data from the newly done phone survey by r.i.c.e. called Social Attitudes Research, India (SARI). It studies explicit pre...
- Research, Social Hierarchy
Mobile phone survey methods for measuring social discrimination!
The Social Attitudes Research, India (SARI) project is among the first to study prejudice and discrimination in India using a low-cost mo...
- Research, Social Hierarchy
Experiences and Perceptions of Discrimination among Dalits and Muslims
Through the use of new survey data, the experiences and perceptions of discrimination among Dalits and Muslims have been quantified. One ...
- Research, Social Hierarchy
When women eat last: Discrimination at home and women’s mental health
Women and girls in India face many forms of discrimination throughout the life course.  Gender inequality has important consequences for ...
- Research, Social Hierarchy
Accountability Initiative's and r.i.c.e.'s paper got published in EPW!
Since October 2014, the Government of India has worked towards the goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 through the Swachh Bharat ...
- Blog Post
EPW published Payal and Nikhil's paper on Caste Prejudice & Infection!
In light of India’s continuing efforts to reduce maternal mortality, why government hospitals continue to be dangerously unhygienic, posi...
- Blog Post
Prof. Amit Thorat, who is also a r.i.c.e. affiliate, interviewed for EPW's podcast show
Prof Amit Thorat, who teaches at JNU and is also a visiting researcher at r.i.c.e., with his colleague Dr. Omkar Joshi, who is a doctoral...
- Blog Post
Protecting health workers: Protective gear is not enough, infection control practices are critical | Payal Hathi and Nikhil Srivastav | The Times of India
At the end of the PM’s announcement of India’s countrywide lockdown last month, he reminded us of the importance of health workers as we ...
- Media
Accountability Initiative's and r.i.c.e.'s paper published in EPW!
- Research
Caste prejudice and infection: why a dangerous lack of hygiene persists in government hospitals
In light of India’s continuing efforts to reduce maternal mortality and make childbirth safer for women, this article explores why govern...
- Research, Sanitation, Maternal Health
Revisiting Open Defecation: Evidence from a Panel Survey in Rural North India, 2014–18
Since October 2014, the Government of India has worked towards the goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 through the Swachh Bharat ...
- Research, Sanitation
Nikhil's book review of `The Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives' in the EPW
Don't miss a review of 'The right to sanitation in India: Critical perspectives', edited by Philippe Cullet, Sujith Koonan, and Lovleen B...
- Blog Post
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