#55 India's Life Expectancy with Aashish Gupta & Payal Hathi Co-host Aditi Priya

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16-05-2022 • 1 hr 56 mins

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Aashish Gupta - https://twitter.com/aashishg_
Payal Hathi - https://twitter.com/aashishg_
Aditi Priya - https://twitter.com/aditipriya_0301

Guest Profile
Aashish Gupta is a demographer. He holds a Ph.D. in demography and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MA in development studies from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Payal is a PhD student in Demography and Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Research Fellow at r.i.c.e. Her research interests center on social inequality and health.

Aditi Priya is the founder of Bahujan Economists and is an upcoming graduate student at Brown University.


Timestamps

3:30
Life journey of Aashish and Payal

16:15
Some eye-opening incidents

20:10
Research and challenges in explaining the work they do to friends & fa

32:53
Summarizing the sanitization work and is it connected to life expectancy.

42:45
Presence of caste in the indicators and other religions.

50:30
Sanitation workers and their struggles. The situation in government hospitals

1:00:10
Understanding the research on life expectancy

1:18:00
Hypothesis on why life expectancy is low in Dalits and Adivasis

1:38:00
Changes in life expectancy in each state

1:43:20
Response from academia

Important Links

Joothan -https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Joothan/0i5TtbXz36IC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover

Annihilation of Caste
https://www.amazon.in/Annihilation-Caste-B-R-Ambedkar/dp/9391523390/ref=asc_df_9391523390/?tag=googleshopdes-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=545019405814&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=9892539633617798177&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007765&hvtargid=pla-1570789976633&psc=1

Gender and caste inequality, and their role in persistence of environmental health harms
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X21002977
https://www.epw.in/journal/2017/1/review-rural-affairs/understanding-open-defecation-rural-india.html

Why a Dangerous Lack of Hygiene Persists in Government Hospitals
https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/16/special-articles/caste-prejudice-and-infection.html
For a Bahujan Economics
https://www.theindiaforum.in/article/bahujan-economics
Some Key findings by Aashish, Payal, and Aditi
https://twitter.com/aashishg_/status/1511528299079553024

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