-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …

Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …

vulnerability of countries to global shocks and to reach growth and poverty reduction goals. Investments in girls and women need to … stresses and harness demographic opportunities for growth. This is the case because the fate of women and girls, especially in …

should be addressed not only to social programs related with education, health and other basic conditions for wellbeing but …

production. More than 75% of work force is engaged in agriculture, but generates only 20% of state’s GDP. About 45% area is under … expectations, resulting higher rural poverty. The incidence of poverty in Jharkhand is estimated at 46%; however 60% of schedule … caste and schedule tribes are still below poverty line. Hence, it may be said that agroecological and social factors are …

-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …

Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …

secondary sources of data primarily obtained from National Family Health Survey-4 (NFHS-4), All India Census Report, 2011 and …This paper investigates the empowerment of Muslim women in India, vis-à-vis their male counterparts as well as women … Statistical reports, Election Commission of India. Based on these data sets, various indicators of women empowerment …