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Nazar Khalid is a Ph.D. student in demography and population studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and a research fellow at the research institute for compassionate economics (r.i.c.e). His research interests include social stratification and mobility, poverty, health, and education. With r.i.c.e., Nazar has managed a phone survey project designed to measure attitudes towards marginalised groups, including women, lower castes, and Muslims, and to measure opinions about public policies in India. He has also conducted a household-level panel survey about sanitation behaviour in rural north India which examined why households in rural India find it difficult to switch to clean fuel use despite benefits for health.