Diane Coffey
Diane is a demographer who studies health, nutrition, sanitation, and social inequality in India. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology & Population Research at the University of Texas at Austin, a visiting researcher at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, and she co-directs a research non-profit called r.i.c.e., a research institute for compassionate economics, which aims to inform policies relating to child health in India.
Content by Diane Coffey
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Publication - Working Paper
Measurement of population mental health: Evidence from a mobile phone survey in India
19 Apr 2021 | Diane Coffey, Payal Hathi, Nazar Khalid, Amit Thorat
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Publication - Working Paper
When women eat last: Discrimination at home and women’s mental health
19 Apr 2021 | Diane Coffey, Payal Hathi, Nazar Khalid, Amit Thorat
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Publication - Policy Brief
When women eat last: Discrimination at home and women’s mental health
In Bihar, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra, India, it is common for women to eat after men in their households. Eating last is negatively associated with women’s mental health, even after accounting for differences in socioeconomic status across households. Additionally, eating last may be associated with worse mental health because it leads to worse physical...
24 Nov 2020 | Payal Hathi, Diane Coffey, Amit Thorat, Nazar Khalid
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Project
Gender and mental health in Bihar and India: Developing tools for effective measurement
Preliminary evidence suggests that women in India are more likely to suffer poor mental health than men, impacting their own wellbeing but also that of any children they may have. Understanding women’s mental health in Bihar is especially important: compared with other Indian states, poverty is more common, gender discrimination is sometimes more severe, and the...
23 Nov 2020 | Diane Coffey
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Publication - Working Paper
Understanding open defecation in rural India: Untouchability, pollution, and latrine pits
17 Jul 2017 | Diane Coffey, Dean Spears, Aashish Gupta, Payal Hathi, Nikhil Srivastav, Sangita Vyas
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Publication - Project Memo
Switching to sanitation in South Asia: A study of health technology
17 Nov 2014 | Diane Coffey, Dean Spears
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Multimedia Item - Video
Session 6 Part 2 (Coffey, Somanathan and Barooah) IGC-ISI Development Policy Conference 2014
29 Sep 2014
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Project
Switching to sanitation in South Asia
Sanitation is crucial for health and financial prosperity, and thus economic growth 70% of households in rural India do not have a toilet or latrine Cultural practices are the principal issue preventing improved sanitation The Special Secretary, Chief Minister’s Office, Uttar Pradesh requested a hand-out for government servants and a pilot study...
4 Sep 2014 | Diane Coffey, Dean Spears
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Blog post
Culture, religion and open defecation in rural north India
Over half of all Indians defecate in the open, and in rural areas, almost 70% of households do not have a toilet or latrine. In contrast, less than 1% of people in China, 4% of people in Bangladesh, and about a quarter of people in sub-Saharan Africa defecate in the open. Why is the prevalence of open defecation so high in India? Considering the enormous health and economic...
19 Aug 2014 | Diane Coffey