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Desai co-authors brief on health insurance inequities in India
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Many Indians do not take advantage of their insurance coverage
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Sonalde Desai cited in report on India survey differences
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Detailing women's work changes employment perspective
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Gender inequalities and household fuel choice in India
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The use of solid cooking fuels—wood, straw, crop residue, and cow-dung cakes—is associated with higher levels of environmental pollution and health burden. However, even in an era when incomes have grown and poverty has declined, the proportion of Indian households using clean cooking fuels such as kerosene or Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) has increased only slightly. Even among the wealthiest quintile, only about 40 percent of the households rely solely on clean fuel. Since the chores of cooking and collection of fuel remain primarily the domain of women, we argue that intra-household gender inequalities play an important role in shaping the household decision to invest in clean fuel. Analyses using data from the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), a panel survey of over 41,000 households conducted in two waves in 2004-05 and 2011–12, respectively, show that women's access to salaried work and control over household expenditure decisions is associated with the use of clean fuel.
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Sonalde Desai featured in The Indian Express on Social Distancing Practice during COVID-19 Lockdown in India
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Telephone survey shows high understanding of social distancing, support for lockdown
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Monica Das Gupta quoted in LiveMint on India's Lagged Public Health System
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Decades of neglect have left India’s public health system with a very weak arsenal to fight and eliminate contagious diseases
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Desai comments on India census challenges
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Citizenship policies imperil data gathering
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'Silence is louder than statistics'
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Op-Ed details limitations of sexual violence research in India
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School of Public Policy- Center for Global Sustainability: Global Sustainability Forum
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Climate change, rice production and ground water depletion in India
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Coming Up
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Flies Without Borders: Lessons from Chennai on improving India’s municipal public health services
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Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland, et al. // Keywords: Public health, Sanitation, Urban, Local government, India, Governance, Devolution; 2017-005
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Is banning sex-selection the best approach for reducing prenatal discrimination ?
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Monica Das Gupta, University of Maryland // Keywords: Son preference, abortion bans, gender, policy measures, China, India; 2017-003
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