Aashish Gupta, Harvard University

About the Presentation

Research on socioeconomic status and life expectancy in low- and middle-income contexts is constrained by data limitations. Using data from three of India’s Demographic and Health Surveys, I generate the first direct estimates of period life table quantities and their standard errors by household wealth in India. These estimates reveal large and persistent disparities in mortality. These findings have several implications for the scientific literature on measurement of health inequalities, inequalities in well-being in India, health system priorities, and understanding the evolution of health disparities in the ongoing epidemiological transition.

About the Speaker

Aashish is a demographer, and currently a David E Bell Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. He earned his PhD in Demography and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA in development studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His research uses demographic and field methods to examine interrelations between health, environment, and inequality in India. He was awarded the Dorothy Thomas Award by the Population Association of America, and a Civil Registration and Vital Statistics fellowship by the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.