Discussion on 'freebies' diverting attention away from state failures in providing quality universal public services and state's largesse towards corporate profits. The poor even vote in larger numbers, keeping the facade of democracy going On 'freebies' in The Hindu

✅Lower utility bills ✅More jobs ✅Cleaner air ✅Better transportation ✅Thriving communities Just a few reasons our own Van Jones & @jessiebuendia say working families - and all Americans - should be excited about the Senate's #InflationReductionAct cnn.com/2022/08/04/per…

Friends of IHDS please circulate. @NCAER is looking for several post-docs, including 1 for IHDS (based in Delhi). Unique opportunity to work with IHDS-3 data as it is being collected.

The pandemic is an opportunity to redress the gaps in mortality statistics and the death registration data with continued scientific attention and vigorous public discussion. Murad Banaji, @aashishg_, and Vipul Paikra write buff.ly/3QMKPbk

We are hiring! Searching for an Information System Analyst. Please retweet widely: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucb/EMPLOY…

We are hiring! A Computing Director, Department of Demography. This is an excellent opportunity to use your computing skills along with social science, with great people, and in a terrific department. Please retweet, disseminate widely.

Delivery rooms in public hospitals are sites of extreme stress for the staff & pregnant women. This stress manifests itself as physical and verbal abuse directed at the pregnant women | LOVEY PANT, Kanika S, Nazar Khalid, Nikhil Srivastav write r.i.c.e. buff.ly/3RSk99C

🔊Please help spread the word about this interesting proposal for a Special Collection on "Innovations in measuring adult mortality in countries with deficient civil registration". 👇

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Using NFHS-5 data, Sangita Vyas and @aashishg_ estimate open defecation in rural Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan & Uttar Pradesh. They find that although states had been declared OD free, it was still common in a large share of latrine-owning households. ideasforindia.in/topics/human-d…

Women’s fertility and allostatic load in the post-reproductive years: An analysis of the Indonesian Family Life Survey. My latest paper with Heini Väisänen (@[email protected]) and Firman Witoelar tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… LSE International Development INEDEng LSE Global Health

My opinion piece on Census The Indian Express "The Census is necessary since it forms the basis of all the plans and programs that the government wants to implement. Postponing the Census has immediate and long-term negative consequences for India" PIB - Ministry of Home Affairs

We are now accepting applications to our 9th Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, June 5-9, 2023. The focus this year is on fertility, including contemporary topics like Covid-19 and abortion policy. Held in person; grant support funds trainees. populationsciences.berkeley.edu/population-cen… Retweet!

I have posted this before but .. 26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of O school shootings in the UK.

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#PodcastAlert In this episode of TIF Talkies host Kiran Kumbhar discusses metrics, statistics, and numbers in public health and demography with @aashishg_ who is a sociologist, demographer, and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford. buff.ly/3MXMXxY

Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera write Progress towards universal maternity benefits, sluggish as it was in the first place, has gone into reverse gear in the last few years. buff.ly/43JJ4T8

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'Low birthweight and prematurity' is now the most common cause of child death in India. We need to communicate to families how vulnerable their babies are and how important appropriate care is to their survival. Taha Ibrahim Siddiqui, Nayana Nair, Diane Coffey write theindiaforum.in/health/underst…