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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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EPW published r.i.c.e. paper on fuel use in rural north India!
Survey evidence from rural North India showing persistent solid fuel use despite increases in liquefied petroleum gas ownership is presen...
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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-f...
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Measuring open defecation in India using survey questions: evidence from a randomized survey experiment published in BMJ Open
BMJ Open published 'Measuring open defecation in India using survey questions: evidence from a randomized survey experiment' co-authored...
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Alex Tabarrok reviews AIR: Pollution, Climate Change and India’s Choice Between Policy and Pretense
Alex Tabarrok, a professor of economics at the George Mason University, recently reviewed Dean’s latest book 'Air: Pollution, Climate Cha...
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Dean's new book 'AIR' reviewed in Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times recently published a review of Dean's new book 'AIR: Pollution, Climate Change and India's Choice Between Policy and Pret...
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"Cooking with gas, not wood." Read Sangita and Aashish's piece in The Hindu
Sangita and Aashish's article addresses some popular myths around the use of traditional chulha (earthen/brick stove) and why there is a ...
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Aashish's research on solid fuel use, gender, and adult respiratory health published in Population & Environment
Population and Environment recently published Aashish's new research titled 'Where there is smoke: Solid Fuel externalities, gender, and ...
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Promoting the use of simple pit latrines in rural India: Findings from Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka and Odisha
For the past three years, r.i.c.e. has been collaborating with 3ie on supporting projects that are testing different strategies for promo...
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Sangita awarded Parker Frisbie Publication Award for her paper on coal and child height.
Sangita is among the two winners of the Parker Frisbie Publications Award for this year.  The award committee had following to say about ...
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New SARI datasets!
I am so pleased to announce the release of three new SARI datasets from Maharasthra, Jharkhand, and Bihar! You can download the data here...
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Dean, Diane, Sangita and Nikhil feature in a video made to honour Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar
Dean, Diane, Sangita and Nikhil feature in a video project by Chandrakant Agame at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere...
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Dean's new book on air pollution and climate change is out!
Dean's new book on air pollution and climate change, 'Air: Pollution, Climate Change, and India's Choice Between Policy and Pretence,' is...
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Willingness to sacrifice for Climate mitigation: r.i.c.e's new research now available
A new research paper by Diane, Payal and Dean that studies people's willingness to sacrifice to achieve climate mitigation is out now! Us...
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N-ISSUP publishes a short article on Diane's research on neonatal mortality and facility birth in India
N-ISSUP, the online magazine of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, published a short article based on Diane’...
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The Wire bulletin covers r.i.c.e's research on the solid fuel use and LPG ownership.
The Wire covered r.i.c.e’s new research on the persistence of solid fuel use despite increases in LPG ownership [report runs from 00 to 4...
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Check out our new research study on the persistence of soild fuel use despite increases in LPG ownership!
Exposure to air pollution has important consequences for public health. Several studies have held that a major source of air pollution ex...
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Coercion, Construction, and 'ODF Paper pe' : Swachha Bharat According to Local Officials published in The India Forum
The India Foruma - a Journal Magazine on Contemporary Issues published our article 'Coercion, Construction, and 'ODF Paper pe': Swachha ...
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Survey of Rural Sanitation and Solid Fuel Use, 2018, is publicly available now!
We are excited to announce that the data from our new survey on the status of rural sanitation and solid fuel use is publicly available n...
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Nazar interviewed on DW News Asia!
Nazar was recently interviewed about the Swacch Bharat Mission on DW News Asia.  It was great that he was able to publicize the results o...
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Reducing open defecation in rural India is an important human development goal, but at what cost? Read Sangita's piece in Hindustan Times
Sangita’s article in Hindustan Times raises some pertinent questions about the ways in which the Swachh Bharat Mission has been implement...
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Dainik Bhaskar, a prominent Hindi newspaper, reports on our new research on changes in open defecation in India: 2014-2018.
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Release of r.i.c.e and Accountability Initiative's research study "Changes in open defecation in rural north India: 2014-2018."
r.i.c.e is delighted to share that the release of the new research study on 'Changes in open defecation in rural north India: 2014-2018' ...
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Working paper & Launch - 'Changes in open defecation in rural north India: 2014 - 2018'
All of us at r.i.c.e. are excited to announce our new working paper, 'Changes in open defecation in rural north India: 2014 - 2018'. The ...
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Rukmini S: Why Swachh Bharat Abhiyan matters for India’s children
Rukmini's article, published  yesterday in LiveMint, contains some of the best data visualizations that I have seen from the NFHS-4.  She...
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Two photo essays that explain the broken market of faecal sludge management
On World Toilet Day, the *India Water Portal* published two photo essays by Prof. Sharad Prasad and Prof Isha Ray. Prasad and Ray in thei...
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Social progress and social inequality: Measurements and assessments are needed... and possible
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Check out our new paper on experiences and perceptions of discrimination
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Nobel laureate Bill Nordhaus’ ideas for India
William Nordhaus has won a share of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics for his contribution to climate economics. In this post from Ideas ...
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Social Attitudes Research, India (SARI) data is available!
Starting in 2016, we began Social Attitudes Research, India (SARI), a mobile phone survey collecting data from representative samples of ...
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Paper on child height published in EPW
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 jour...
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Swachh Bharat Mission Grameen releases a commendable ad to promote twin pit latrines!
The Swacch Bharat Mission Grameen recently launched an advertisement campaign video with Hindi movie stars Bhumi Pednekar and Akshay Kuma...
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Hunger and health: Royal Economic Society video highlights prize-winning r.i.c.e. research
In last few decades, India has seen a declining household per capita average calorie consumption. This throws a puzzle, as over the same ...
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Dean talks to the Institute of Development Studies on what motivated 'Where India Goes?'
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Neighborhood sanitation graph is AEA's chart of the week
The American Economic Association is featuring a graph from Mike and Dean's paper 'Neighborhood Sanitation and Infant Mortality' as their...
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"Policy advice is not just a question of evidence and values, it also requires thinking politically."
Ashok Kotwal interviews Jean Drèze in Ideas for India.
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r.i.c.e. research in Scroll article on support for breastfeeding
Earlier this month, Scroll published this article calling for more support for women to help them successfully breastfeed their babies. T...
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Breastfeeding promotion in EPW Engage
Check out Nikhil’s article in EPW Engage in which he explores the government’s current pilot program (Mother’s Absolute Affection, or MAA...
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Where India Goes makes The Hindu's Top 10 list!
The Hindu recently compiled its list of top ten non-fiction books of 2017, and Dean and Diane's Where India Goes made the list!
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SARI in the news!
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SARI Paper in EPW!
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Aadhaar, biometrics, and the PDS in Jharkhand
Check my new article on ideas for India website. The Public Distribution System plays an important role in the lives of poor people in Jh...
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India's new DHS (NFHS-4) is out!
The hard-working folks at the Demographic and Health Surveys and the International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai have the perf...
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The stigma around women's work
Payal's op-ed on women's work was published in the Indian Express today. She uses SARI data to explore social disapproval of women workin...
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A Small Tribute to Uwe Reinhardt
I was greatly saddened to hear about Uwe Reinhardt’s passing on Monday, November 13, 2017.  For those who may not be familiar with him, U...
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On drones and defecation
Hat tip to r.i.c.e. board member Avinash Kishore for noticing this article in the Hindustan Times: 'In Telangana’s Karimnagar, police dep...
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Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma reviewed Where India Goes in today's Hindustan Times
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 i...
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Bezwada Wilson on caste, manual scavenging, and the Swachh Bharat Mission
If there is one thing you will read today, let it be this interview of Bezwada Wilson by Vidya Subrahmaniam of The Hindu Center in The Wi...
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New open access paper with Aashish Gupta in JEEM
My paper with Aashish, 'Health externalities of India's expansion of coal plants: Evidence from a national panel of 40,000 households,' i...
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Upcoming book discussion at IIT Delhi!
If you are in Delhi on Oct 25th, please mark your calendars for a book discussion of Where India Goes with IIT Delhi's Ambedkar Study Cir...
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An Insightful Article on SBM by Manini Chatterjee in The Telegraph
We wanted to share this interesting article by Manini Chatterjee that came out in The Telegraph today. Manini has talked about how the SB...
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SARI Paper Presentation on October 10 at IIT, Delhi
r.i.c.e. is delighted to share that our execuitive Director, Diane Coffey, will be presenting a paper 'Measuring Explicit Prejudice: Find...
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Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone -- just launched!
Congratulations to Jean Drèze on the launch of his new book, Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone. The book was just la...
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Guest post: Air, health, and coal in India
This blog post was written by Sapna Gopal and was originally published at India Climate Dialogue. If India reduced its air pollution to c...
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What fraction of sexual violence in India is within marriages?: Media coverage of research by Aashish Gupta
In most countries around the world, marital rape may be prosecuted (see box 11 on page 113 of this UN report). But in India, marital rape...
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Three recent reviews of Where India Goes
We were very happy to find three reviews of Where India Goes in various corners of the internet and we wanted to share them with you! The...
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Where India Goes in The Economist
The book and the SQUAT survey are both quoted in an article in the Asia section of this week's issue of The Economist: 'Indian officials ...
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Where "Where India Goes" Goes
In homage to the people who posted photos of 'On What Matters' on top of things, a post on 'Where India Goes' has been the past few days....
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Where India Goes: Back in the Kindle store with free sample
Where India Goes is back in the Kindle store.  I know that some of you pre-ordered the book for Kindle, only to have it mysteriously canc...
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National Geographic magazine features Where India Goes in August 2017 issue
Read the full article by Elizabeth Royte: 'Nearly a Billion People Still Defecate Outdoors. Here’s Why.' The article, and the photography...
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More media coverage for 'Where India Goes'
We wanted to share some more media coverage that the book has got in other newspapers. It got covered in The National Herald, that uses a...
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Media Coverage for 'Where India Goes'
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 Expre...
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Photos from the launch of Where India Goes
Visit the photos tab to see photos from the book launch of Dean and Diane's 'Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and...
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Where India Goes: Book launch and preorder on Amazon!
r.i.c.e. is delighted to announce Harper Collins' publication in July of Dean and Diane's new book Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, S...
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An insightful article on Swachh Bharat Mission
An article in last month's Caravan magazine covers the progress of the Swachh Bharat Mission and provides sharp insight into some of the ...
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An article on rural outdoor air pollution in The Caravan!
Until now, concern and action regarding outdoor air pollution in India have focused on Delhi and other large urban centers. However, 30 p...
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r.i.c.e. at PAA
Diane and I were at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America 2017 in Chicago this week. Diane presented her paper, co-...
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Nidhi’s article in THE WIRE!
Reservation in jobs, and in academic institution is seen as one of the most delicate issues being discussed in contemporary India. Our re...
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Work with r.i.c.e. and 3ie on a project to learn about latrine use measurement!
We are delighted to announce that we are seeking applications for a team to carry out a new project — in partnership with 3ie and the WAS...
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Two r.i.c.e. opeds published in Hindi media!
We are very excited to share that Dainik Bhaskar – the most widely-read Hindi newspaper in India – published an article written by Nikhil...
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“Mad rush for toilets under Swachh Bharat Abhiyan flouting citizens’ rights”, writes Kumkum Dasgupta from HT
On October 2nd, 2014, the prime minister of India announced his ambitious target of ending open defecation in India by 2019. Now, two and...
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Diane & Dean's book awarded the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
Congrats to Dean and Diane for winning the Joseph W. Elder Prize from the American Institute of Indian Studies for their soon-to-be-publi...
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r.i.c.e. article in THE WIRE
Swachh Bharat Mission since its inception has been facing a drought in terms of policy solutions. Given that 2019 is the target for achie...
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2016 Jeroen Ensink Memorial Prize Announcement
Payal, Dean, and Diane's article, 'Can collective strategies motivate behavior change to reduce open defecation in rural India?' was rece...
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How to continue the pit emptying momentum
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Maternity benefits - not yet universal
At the start of the new year, we were excited to see forward momentum on the national maternity entitlements program: the prime minister ...
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Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation Secretary empties a latrine pit!
The Times of India reported yesterday that the Secretary of the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation, Param Iyer, emptied a latrine ...
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Accountability Initiative releases its 2017 budget brief on Swacch Bharat Mission-Gramin
Accountability Initiative has released its 2017 budget brief report on SBM-Gramin.  According to the report, GOI allocation of SBM-G have...
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r.i.c.e. research changes beliefs
Influencing the beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors of others through research is tough, and often unsuccessful. But this reader's comment o...
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Two r.i.c.e. articles in this week's EPW!
Our article on pollution, latrine pits, and untouchability has been published in this week's EPW! This article discusses the findings of ...
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Four-part series on SARI in The Hindu!
The Hindu just ran a four-part series covering the Social Attitudes Research for India (SARI) Survey. SARI uses a sampling frame based on...
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December 12: Join Sangita in a webinar addressing gender-related challenges in remote mobile data collection
r.i.c.e. has recently launched the Social Attitudes Research in India (SARI) phone survey to track social attitudes over time and experie...
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Mike at Penn
Mike Geruso, member of rice's board, was the presenter yesterday at Penn's Business Economics and Public Policy seminar series. He presen...
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Nikhil's new article in Scroll
Nikhil's new article in scroll is now online. The article explains the link between India's open defecation problem and manual scavenging...
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Grant window: Work with r.i.c.e. and 3ie to learn how to promote the use of SBM latrines!
We are delighted to announce that a grant window -- in partnership with 3ie and the WASH team at the Gates Foundation -- is now open for ...
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Check out Amit's op-ed in the Hindu!
Today, the Hindu published an op-ed by Amit Thorat and Sonalde Desai that uses India Human Development Survey data to discuss poverty and...
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Book chapter: Purity & pollution, caste, and open defecation
Check out a new book chapter authored by Aashish, Diane, and Dean, called 'Purity, pollution, and untouchability: challenges affecting th...
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check out this new article on caste & sanitation
Thanks so much to Payal for sharing Nilanjana Sen's new article at Fair Observer about caste & sanitation in India. It talks about how In...
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Village sanitation and child health: Effects and external validity in a randomized field experiment in rural India|Jeffrey Hammer and Dean Spears
This paper by Jeffrey and Dean reports a cluster randomized controlled trial of a village sanitation intervention conducted in rural Maha...
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New paper on the relationship between village conflict and OD
Waterlines recently published Dean, Diane and my paper on the relationship between social fragmentation in villages and the persistence o...
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Dean's Interview with Outlook | Life Satisfaction is Linked with Caste
Dean gave an interview to Pragya Singh,  reporter with Outlook Magazine. The interview is based on Dean's recently published commentary i...
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Life and Death in the Real India| Nikhil Srivastav| Outlook
Do read Nikhil's article on poor public health services in Uttar Pradesh and the struggle of three newborns against neglect in public hea...
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30,000 babies in UP
Neonatal mortality is the number of babies, per 1000 live births, that die in the first 28 days of life.Postneonatal mortality is the num...
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Dean presents at Penn Demography
This week, Dean came to Penn's Population Studies Center to present his & Mike Geruso's 'Neighourhood Sanitation and Infant Mortality' pa...
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Three percentage point drop in IEC expenditure in 2015-16 SBM budget: Accountability Initiative
Using government data, policy brief by Accountability Initiative  reports on trends for SBM Gramin along  parameters such as allocations ...
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PBS film on sanitation and stunted growth
The Global Health Frontiers series on sanitation talks about the effect of poor sanitation on physical and cognitive development of an in...
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Dean's paper on Caste and Life Satisfaction in EPW
Dean's new paper on 'Caste and Life Satisfaction' got published in Economic and Political Weekly this week. The paper shows one of the ev...
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Reflections on the SBM and maternity entitlements
Rahul Jacob wrote a piece today in the Business Standard, highlighting r.i.c.e.’s research and calling on the government to convince peop...
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Preventing climate change is pro-poor
Two pieces of news today.  First, a new paper in PNAS by Francis Dennig,  Mark Budolfson, Marc Fleurbaey, Asher Siebert, and Robert H. So...
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Watch Angus Deaton's Nobel lecture online Tuesday
Angus Deaton's Nobel lecture is Tuesday. You can watch it online here, at the Nobel prize website. The lecture is at 1:30 pm Central Euro...
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Who is representing the most powerless Indians in Paris?
Today the Indian Express published my op-ed: Question from a future India. The question I imagine is from the future Indians who will be ...
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Dean and Nicholas's paper in Economics and Human Biology
Dean and Nicholas's new paper in Economics and Human Biology studies the effect of early life health  and adult wages for men in India. R...
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New review of Joshua Greene's Moral Tribes in EPW
This week, Economic and Political Weekly published my review of Joshua Greene's book Moral Tribes.The review begins by considering the ar...
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model Stata do file for demographic decomposition papers
Diane and I just finished teaching a weeklong workshop at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi, where we taught about how to write e...
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Economic Times writes about NSSO report showing very little use of SBM latrines
Today, the Economic Times wrote about the findings of an NSSO report on toilet  use. The report reveals that just 46% of toilets built in...
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Happy World Toilet Day?|Dean's article in GNR's website
Dean's article in Global Nutrition Report's website talks about how measuring open defecation and promoting toilet use in India can help ...
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Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer prize winning NYT journalist, discusses r.i.c.e. research
Nicholas Kristof, who is visiting rural Uttar Pradesh, wrote about the causes and consequences of India's malnutrition problems in his NY...
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A Nobel Prize for measurement: Congratulating Angus in the Indian Express
Diane and I congratulate our teacher Angus Deaton in the Indian Express. In the preface to his magisterial 2013 book The Great Escape, An...
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Congratulations, Angus!
In celebration of the fact that my PhD advisor, Angus Deaton, has just won the Nobel prize in Economics, I thought I would share one of m...
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Filthy filter
Recently, we at r.i.c.e. have been learning a lot about air pollution -- how it is measured, why it is bad for health, where it comes fro...
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Maternal health in the news
Today, Diane's article on maternal undernutrition and maternity entitlements came out in India in Transition, as well as the Hindu Busine...
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first year of SBM over, only four left to eliminate open defecation
Today is Gandhi Jayanti, which marks the first anniversary of the Swachh Bharat Mission. r.i.c.e. marked the occasion a few days ago by h...
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Conference on Purity, Untouchability, and Open Defecation, 29th Sept, JNU
If you would like to attend the conference, you must register by here by 25th Sept. Last year, the Government of India launched the Swach...
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Read this important new qualitative paper from rural Orissa
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Sangita's Tedx Talk
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Two new additions to the r.i.c.e. family
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The Economist published Malnutrition and Immunisation figures from the 2013-14 UNICEF survey
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Things Swachh Bharat Mission can learn from Yoga Day
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Sangita is delivering a TedX talk on Sanitation on Sunday
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Like its predecessors, Narendra Modi’s sanitation programme is struggling | Nikhil and Aashish's op-ed in LiveMint
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Sanitation and Infant mortality externalities paper on fivethirtyeight
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Is Some Vaccine Worse than None? The Rubella Vaccine Threshold Effect
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Nikhil and Sangita on NDTV, discussing the Swacch Bharat Mission
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Sanitation and Culture paper and blog-post at the IGC website
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What can India learn from France about open defecation?
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Bus ko rasta do
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We don’t clean toilets!
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SQUAT in USA Today!
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optimal guidelines: a pain in the gluteal region
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Sanitation in the new IFPRI Global Food Policy Report
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big numbers
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More articles covering Diane's PNAS paper on maternal health in India
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Nutrition in pregnancy in India far worse than believed: Coffey in PNAS, NYT, Hindu
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We cook friendship here
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"begin by admitting the problem": Diane on the CLTS knowledge hub
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All of us in evidence-based policy should contemplate Krugman's column
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Sangita on CNN-IBN's show DelhiDemands, discussing sanitation
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Reporting in Hindu, BBC and Scroll on "Under-reporting of violence against women"
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Two new (and frightening) articles on anti-biotic resistance (with one of them featuring r.i.c.e. research)
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Two new (and interesting) articles about open defecation in India
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Business Standard has Lunch with Dean
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Merry Good Governance Day and happy Christmas!
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Make sure our markets glitter
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Op-Ed in Indian Express: Can India be far behind?
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Coal isn't worth the cost
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Wrong numbers: Attack on NREGA is misleading
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Stopping stunting, Swachh Bharat, and trash cans
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Beyond brooms and toilets
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An insightful look at the hurdels of Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
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Sangita Vyas presenting at the Hindustan Uniliver panel discussion on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan
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SQUAT dataset now available!
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SQUAT, Payal and Nikhil on NDTV’s Truth Vs. Hype with Sreenivasan Jain
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moral mathematics and fall leaves
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How many of us are willing to clean our own toilets?
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The Hindu covers Aashish’s research on the underreporting of violence against women in India
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The true cost of sanitation
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Check out our UNC posters and presentations
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Payal’s article for IndiaSpend: The Trouble With India’s $22 Billion Toilet Gamble
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Working Paper: Reporting and incidence of violence against women in India.
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r.i.c.e. at UNC
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Payal was quoted in the Hindu!
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Mani Shankar Aiyer quotes us!
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Why many Indians can’t stand to use a toilet
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Costly sanitation campaigns, but very little to show for it
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The BBC just wrote an article about our research!
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Nikhil’s governance now article is now available online
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We are presenting SQUAT (and other papers) at the University of North Carolina
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Economic Times column by Chaitanya Kalbag quotes us too!
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How to end open defecation by 2019? Check out the SQUAT Policy Brief No. 1
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India Today’s cover story about Swacch Bharat Mission has a column by Dean and Diane!
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NDTV’s BanegaSwachhIndia campaign did an interview with Dean!
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Payal’s article in Scroll: Why community toilets won’t reduce open defecation in rural India
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Shashi Tharoor writes about sanitation and r.i.c.e. research!
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r.i.c.e. in the Indian Express and on Anubha Bhonsle’s show India at 9!
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A look at the plans for the “new” Swacch Bharat Mission
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The government chucked latrine use from ‘Sanitation Pledge’
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reflections on the switching study: children would taunt “Bhangi! Bhangi!”
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#PromoteLatrineUse
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The best sanitation articles this week
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See Nitin Dhaktode's very nice aricle describing a village that became free from open defecation in Maharashtra
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How many missing toilets will there be after the first 100 days?
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don't overlook the annual sanitation survey
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go read Varad Pande: "Swachh Bharat Mission: The Long Walk from Rhetoric to Implementation"
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Public service announcement: Ending open defecation is in our hands!
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Ideas for India and Live Mint do sanitation series
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Sanitation is a core message in PMs Independence Day speech!
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Does the IEC messaging on sanitation needs to change?
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Lots of educated men who have toilets still defecate in the open
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Bloomberg News also finds unused government latrines
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Purity, latrine use, and religion
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Aashish gave a wonderful presentation @ South Asia Conference on Policies and Practices to Improve Nutrition Security
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Do religious leaders talk about defecation in India?
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What do the SQUAT data say about latrine usage and religion?
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V.S. Naipaul understood the culture of open defecation way back in 1964!
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Behavior change order to states from the MoDWS!
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Bending the curve from business as usual
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Switching study presentation at IGC at 3pm on Friday (today)!
Today at 3pm, in a presentation called 'Culture and the health transition: the case of sanitation in rural north India' Diane will be pre...
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Oops! We didn't realise. The Economist used our map as a daily chart too!
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The Economist also agrees with rice on sanitation
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Many people don't know that latrine use is good for health
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More Maps: Did open defecation really decline in India between 2001 and 2011?
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@nytimes tweeted sanitation article featuring rice research
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Sanitation article featuring rice research is among most tweeted and most emailed at nyt
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Welcome new readers from the New York Times!
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A word cloud of Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan guidelines
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Omprakash Valmiki on Open Defecation
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Principles for a Swatchh Bharat Mission
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A Story to Inform the Swatchh Bharat Mission
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Sanitation Update: India struggles on Millenium Development Goals, Economic Survey punches holes
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Which government programmes do people care about?
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Another misguided toilet building target
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Nikhil's Youth Ki Awaz article
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Can Uttar Pradesh Ever Climb Its Sanitation Ladder?
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More media using SQUAT to push for attitude change
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New Maps: Which country has the most open defecation in the world?
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Media reports on the SQUAT Survey
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SQUAT survey findings up at squatreport.in!
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Webinar link for Dean's presentation at PHFI
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presenting SQUAT survey findings at PHFI on Thursday
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To stop open defecation go the Pulse Polio way: HT Op-ed
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Data journalism site IndiaSpend agrees with Sangita's op-ed
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Lawrence Haddad on the SQUAT Survey
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A new blog on Centre for Global Development: "Honey, West Bengal Shrunk the Kids"
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Squat and Switching Questionnaires are up!
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two more!
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Even America's National Public Radio says a sanitation social movement may be in order
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President promises a Swachh Bharat Mission
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This article was not based on the SQUAT survey. It says exactly what we keep saying.
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The battle for toilets and minds - Rukmini's op-ed in The Hindu based on the Squat Survey
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200th post, and 2 new articles
We wrote two new articles this past week. Actually, we wrote more, but only two of them have come out. The first one, written by Dean for...
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India requires a "junoon" - an obsession - to end open defecation: Jairam Ramesh
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news of a tragedy implies open defecation
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more mint on malnutrition
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100 interviews!
Today, the switching study team finished its final qualitative interview! We have learned a lot about sanitation attitudes and behaviors ...
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Increasing recognition of sanitation (and rice work)
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Vote for Toilet!
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Existence externalities and policy choices: Is population ethics relevant to policy?
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A new cool video on (urban) sanitation
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How would babies vote?
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Wealth & Children's Health in India in EPW
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Wise words, part II
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Sagar the horrible
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Baby care II: Down under
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Economic growth does not cause child growth… so what does?
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Reflections on a first visit to India
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Baby Care: Men's not allowed
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"What's the use?": CLTS blog post by Nicholas Lawson
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Building Latrines, or Encouraging Their Use?
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More thoughts on evidence... and a good example
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Our op-ed in the Business Standard
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What's the evidence on evidence-based policy?
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CLTS in rural north India
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Proof, policy, and patience
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SQUATing in Nirmal Gram Villages in Rajasthan
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Could poor sanitation begin stunting children in utero?
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A guru gets my goat
Last week I was with the survey team in Jodhpur. Jodhpur is one of 33 districts of Rajasthan state, and has a population of 3.7 million p...
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Government sanitaiton programs: Three times a failure
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Read Rukmini S's "The partition of India and height"
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Getting the best bang for your buck
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Open defecation in India in the New York Times
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Toilet tourism in Kenya
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My hang up
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Sahelis
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Real World: Rural Haryana
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Happy Holidays from rice
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Our response to The Hindu's recent editorial on sanitation
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No shame in a simple pit latrine
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On Giving Tuesday
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Asking dirty questions in Bihar
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And we're off!
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Read Joshua Greene's Moral Tribes
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Happy World Toilet Day!
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A new paper and a new graph
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New photos from Sitapur
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Variation in latrine usage
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Dean and Diane participate in UNDP's Zero Hunger Challenge
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How does the disease environment shape calorie needs? Research with economist Josephine Duh
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rice goes to UNC
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Outlook publishes an article titled "The Throneless"
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Happy sad morning news
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Where knowledge and sanitation are poor
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Can better sanitation mean smarter children?
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Search for investigators for research on sanitation
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Guest post: When rice came to Bangladesh
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Where people want latrines
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"More than baby steps required"
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rice goes to Bangladesh
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What makes people give... and to whom?
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A great new article by Rukmini
Rukmini S., of the Hindu, has just published a very insightful new article, accompanied by this photo, about life at the top of the India...
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New Paper based on New Data
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a new working paper on sanitation and anemia
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rice work discussed in TIME magazine!
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A Map of Toilet Coverage in India!
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Even in Green Park
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Read this paper: "How have Europeans grown so tall?"
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When her older sister doesn’t eat food, why would she eat it?
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Accountability Initiative and Arghyam take a closer look at NBA's financing structure
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Article on height in the Hindu
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Check out Aashish in EPW
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Delhi's Sewage Spillovers
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Learning from Arghyam... and other partners like you?
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The challenge of behavior change
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IEC
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Neat undergrad thesis on sanitation programs
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Sanitation and Stunting Conference in Ideas for India
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EPW Discussion on Child Malnutrition
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Men benefit from patriarchy. And the environment loses.
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My talking head: Facts and figures from CNN-IBN
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Alive or thrive?
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A Sanitation Project that Worked
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"Building consensus on building latrines" in LiveMint
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The Hindu discusses the "Bahus paper"
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Should we focus resources on urban sanitation?
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What women "know" about infant feeding
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The importance of open defecation doesn't go away
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News coverage of sanitation and stunting in The Guardian
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PEEPing around in UP
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Conference on child height, stunting, early life disease, and sanitation: Delhi School of Economics August 2nd and 3rd
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Sanitation and child height in the news
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Can sanitation protect investments in nutrition?
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Over medicated and under cared for
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Congratulations Dean & Sangita!
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Paying for what you get in Rwanda
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J. René Coffee Roasters to host a conversation about rice's work
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Happy birthday, John Snow!
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The long and short of open defecation: An op-ed
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Adventures with Aadhaar
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Prayers, demons and mother's milk
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two posts about children's height on Ideas for India blog
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Sanitation and stunting on the Development Impact blog
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Two new working papers: Child height, women's status, and sanitation
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Lawrence Haddad's review of sanitation and stunting research
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presentation on sanitation and stunting at World Bank WSP
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research brief on stunting and sanitation at CLTS website
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The Washington Post on early life health in India
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Presentation at UNICEF and new paper: Sanitation and child height
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Health and the abysmal quality of health care in India
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Introducing the NIMNS data!
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Helping people is hard
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Happy world toilet day!
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rice campaign update: one-third there!
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Milk and babies
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rice needs your help to accept major support from a large donor!
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EPW: Toilets can be temples
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Wise words about India's health systems
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call for papers: stunting and early life disease conference
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Economic Times: Sanitation is an economic issue
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rice is hiring!
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On what doesn't happen
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An oldie but a goodie
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Eating medicine
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Business Standard: Getting What You Pay For
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Electricity in the news!
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Op-ed in Business Standard
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Four cheers for the NFHS-IV
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Infant mortality
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Drought and Desperation in Bihar
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On the topic of tablets...
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Thanks to new friends at LBSNAA
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The Tablet Populism
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Three new papers
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Antibiotic Abuse: A paper from China, and one from India
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Poop for sale
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New rice working paper!
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Congratulations Dr. Kishore!
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Caring for baby in the heat
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A tussle for job cards
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Thank you, Tulsa!
Diane, Avinash, and I all want to send a big thank you to my hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma for helping us celebrate rice's first birthday t...
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Dean wrote a guest post on the Gates Foundation's blog
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NREGA: Denying Job Cards to Deny Jobs
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the rice roadshow
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NREGA: Corruption in Data
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Right to Education Story in the WSJ
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Right to Education Act: India's Brown vs. Board?
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Like rice on facebook!
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How small is too small? (part 3 of 3)
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rice's first birthday party!
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How small is too small? (Part 2 of 3)
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Is health small development?
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How small is too small? (Part 1 of 3)
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"World's Toilet Crisis" on Current TV
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Total Sanitation Campaign paper: new version posted
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Resisting drugs, resisting information
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Enemies of the bad, enemies of the good?
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The money changer
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A glass mainly full, or slightly empty?
Academics like us are sometimes rewarded for making a big deal out of little disagreements. If I like your article, and agree with your c...
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To my friend in the back of the room at ISI: Let’s talk!
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Help me: A bleg to my social psychologist friends
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If you can’t find it in your own backyard…
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Update: Amrita's daughter
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Tapti's birth story
In the past few weeks, I’ve been taking lots of field notes from my visits to the three villages in my study, and from visits with variou...
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A special birthday present: Toilets in UP
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India's National Rural Employment Guarantee and Corruption
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Christmas Cookies - Sitapur Style
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BBC World Service?
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A Valentine’s village: Local politics and latrines
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A clean village with a messy pradhan
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Field notes on breastfeeding and diarrhea
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Can I have my papers back from the BEPress?
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Is India's Total Sanitation Campaign improving children's health?
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A hypothesis worth thinking about
An important puzzle that surrounds child malnutrition is that despite being on average richer than children in sub-Saharan Africa, childr...
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Adult height and early childhood environments
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Four disasters at 8 am: A panel on child health at the AEA
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A privatized public school
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Contradictions and health in rural Madhya Pradesh
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Links from Avinash
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'Combined' against Naxalism
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Public Private Partnership of a Different Kind
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Hot lunches for some, medical exams for nobody, and normal health for all
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Clean Coupons
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Smoke gets in whose eyes?
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Short Term Labor Migration
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Depletion research in New York Times
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The people behind the numbers
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The unsung praises of record keeping
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Worth 1,000 words?
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The most dangerous thing that humans make?
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RICE is a 501(c)(3) public charity!
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Asking questions about health in India
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Who will work for the poor?
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If you know what's good for you
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A ladder of fuels?
75% of all households in India use solid unprocessed fuels—firewood and dung-cake—as cooking fuels. The fuel is burned in inefficient chu...
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Working to eat, eating to work
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Structure versus agency... and being human
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Prices in India
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Crossing the street together
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On honor in economics
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Not enough data?
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¡Saludos! from Mexico
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Welcome to the RICE blog
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