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Where India Goes named among best non-fiction books of the decade by The Hindu
Diane and Dean's book Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste has been named among the best non-fiction books the decade by The Hindu. Reviewing for The Hindu, Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta observes, "This is a...Read More..

Alex Tabarrok reviews AIR: Pollution, Climate Change and India’s Choice Between Policy and Pretense
- Topics: Child health, Environment, Pollution
Alex Tabarrok, a professor of economics at the George Mason University, recently reviewed Dean’s latest book Air: Pollution, Climate Change and India's Choice Between Policy and Pretence on his blog Marginal Revolution. He lauds Dean’s efforts in ‘accurately explain[g] academic...Read More..

Dean, Diane, Sangita and Nikhil feature in a video made to honour Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar
- Topics: Child health, Sanitation, Social inequalities
Dean, Diane, Sangita and Nikhil feature in a video project by Chandrakant Agame at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere, as part of his work as the Literature Secretary of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Anniversary Committee. In this video celebrating the...Read More..

N-ISSUP publishes a short article on Diane’s research on neonatal mortality and facility birth in India
- Topics: Child health, Maternal health
N-ISSUP, the online magazine of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, published a short article based on Diane’s paper “The association between neonatal death and facility birth in regions of India” published in the Demographic Research. The...Read More..

Please check out the Research page to read Dean and my new paper on child height using the NFHS-4 data. It was just published in the journal Economic & Political Weekly on August 4th. We discuss the improvements in child...Read More..

Hunger and health: Royal Economic Society video highlights prize-winning r.i.c.e. research
- Topics: Child health, Sanitation
In last few decades, India has seen a declining household per capita average calorie consumption. This throws a puzzle, as over the same time people in India have gotten richer. Dean and Josephine investigate how India’s improving disease environment can...Read More..

r.i.c.e. research in Scroll article on support for breastfeeding
- Topics: Child health, Maternal health
Earlier this month, Scroll published this article calling for more support for women to help them successfully breastfeed their babies. This support includes not only compensation and time off of work, but also assistance in order to get adequate nutrition...Read More..

India’s new DHS (NFHS-4) is out!
- Topics: Child health, Environment, Gender, Maternal health, Pollution, Sanitation
The hard-working folks at the Demographic and Health Surveys and the International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai have the perfect new year gift for researchers in India: the new round of the India's DHS, also called NFHS - 4 (2015-16)....Read More..

Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma reviewed Where India Goes in today’s Hindustan Times
- Topics: Child health, Sanitation
You can read the whole review at this link. Here is a quotation: "Researchers Diane Coffey and Dean Spears have written a book that is important, timely, and easy to read. It argues that caste is the biggest stumbling block...Read More..

Guest post: Air, health, and coal in India
- Topics: Child health, Environment, Pollution
This blog post was written by Sapna Gopal and was originally published at India Climate Dialogue: If India reduced its air pollution to comply with the air quality standard of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Indians could live about four...Read More..

Media Coverage for ‘Where India Goes’
- Topics: Child health, Sanitation
We wanted to share some of the media coverage that the book 'Where India Goes' has got so far. An op-ed by Val Curtis in The Indian Express talks about the book in explaining the challenges that SBM faces in...Read More..

Diane & Dean’s book awarded the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
- Topics: Child health, Sanitation, Social inequalities
Congrats to Dean and Diane for winning the Joseph W. Elder Prize from the American Institute of Indian Studies for their soon-to-be-published book Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development, and the Costs of Caste. The prize is named after...Read More..

How to continue the pit emptying momentum
- Topics: Child health, Sanitation, Social inequalities
I'm pasting below a list of practical action ideas that Robert Chambers has proposed after the pit emptying demonstration in Warangal. These are activities that governments and organizations can take up alike, to break down taboos around pit emptying related to caste and...Read More..

Maternity benefits – not yet universal
- Topics: Child health, Maternal health
At the start of the new year, we were excited to see forward momentum on the national maternity entitlements program: the prime minister announced that the program would be made universal and cover all districts beginning January 1st, 2017 (up...Read More..

Village sanitation and child health: Effects and external validity in a randomized field experiment in rural India|Jeffrey Hammer and Dean Spears
- Topics: Child health, Sanitation
This paper by Jeffrey and Dean reports a cluster randomized controlled trial of a village sanitation intervention conducted in rural Maharashtra, designed to identify an effect of village sanitation on average child height. The paper got published on 20th April,...Read More..

Life and Death in the Real India| Nikhil Srivastav| Outlook
- Topics: Child health, Decision Making, Maternal health
Do read Nikhil's article on poor public health services in Uttar Pradesh and the struggle of three newborns against neglect in public health facilities, poverty, and disease. This is the first part of a two-part piece. The second part will...Read More..