paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …

level in India. We focus on the time period 1987 to 1999 and three services sectors - banking, insurance and …

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India (1992/93, 1998/99 and 2005/06) are used to … assess the impact of selective mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was … of measurement. The simulations demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be …

suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … food-borne disease, our model also makes predictions regarding health outcomes. We find that child-mortality patterns …