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Large and persistent life expectancy disparities among India’s social groups

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  • Gupta, Aashish
  • Sudharsanan, Nikkil

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India has one of the most rigid systems of social stratification in the world, yet little is known about how this system has shaped life expectancy in the country. We provide the first direct estimates of caste and tribe differences in life expectancy in India using survey data spanning two decades. We find that individuals from the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have drastically lower life expectancies than high-caste individuals (between 4.2-4.4 years for women and 6.1-7.0 years for men in 2013-2016.). These disparities have persisted over a 20-year period. Importantly, mortality disparities are present across the entire life-course and increasingly driven by older age mortality. Our findings reveal a pressing need for far greater examination of the health of marginalized populations in India.

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  • Gupta, Aashish & Sudharsanan, Nikkil, 2020. "Large and persistent life expectancy disparities among India’s social groups," SocArXiv hu8t9, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:hu8t9
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/hu8t9
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