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"Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Developments and the Costs of Caste"

Dean Spears talks about "Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Developments and the Costs of Caste"as part of the Azim Premji University Faculty Seminar Series. About the Lecture Where India Goes addresses the questions: Why are children in India shorter, on average, than poorer children in sub-Saharan Africa? Why are Muslims in India more likely to survive childhood than Hindus? Above all, why is open defecation so persistently, stubbornly high in rural India — and what can be done to accelerate the switch to the sort of health-promoting latrines which are widely used in the rest of the developing world? In their book, Coffey and Spears develop evidence that poor sanitation is an important determinant of the poor health outcomes of India’s children, and that the continuing relevance of the purity, pollution, and untouchability norms of the caste system keeps open defecation alive today despite decades of government latrine construction programs. The book takes the reader on a tour through Indian villages, survey statistics, and government offices — ultimately, inviting the reader to join in thinking about the crucial open policy question: in a context where poor health is so enduringly tied to social inequality, what can state programs and policies do to help? About the Speaker Dean Spears is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UT Austin, where he is an affiliate of the Population Research Center, and is a visiting economist at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. He is a development economist and economic demographer who studies early-life health and human capital formation, environmental economics, and population. Diane Coffey and Dean Spears co-founded and co-direct a research non-profit called r.i.c.e., a research institute for compassionate economics, which works towards evidence-based policy for child health and human development in India. http://www.indiastudies.org/aiis-2017...