Scorched by Inequality: Who Can Afford to Combat “Heat Stress” in Your State?
Using the latest Household Consumer Expenditure Survey (HCES, 2022) and Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS, 2022), Mohit Verma and Shravan M K, in The Wire, explore regional and social disparities in exposure to outdoor heat.
Mohit Verma is a Senior Research Associate at Good Business Lab, Bengaluru and Shravan M K is a Research Associate at Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru.