and welfare via its link with productivity and deprivation. This article analyses nutrient intake in rural India and …

We develop a network model looking at the role of different types of peers in education. The empirical salience of the … and persistent peer effects in education but peers tend to be influential only when their friendships last more than a …

could also improve their education outcomes. Given the importance of education for economic development, this link could be … the impact of child health on education outcomes, but there are formidable obstacles to obtaining credible estimates. Data … sources of bias when attempting to estimate relationships between child health and education. This Chapter provides an …

Level” methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re-organizing instruction based on children …

From the point of view of economic development, education is the acquisition of knowledge and skills through … experiences from conception onwards over the life cycle that increase productivity broadly defined. Education can occur through …. The proximate determinants of education are experiences or inputs into knowledge and skills production functions. Within a …

. Furthermore, since local interactions imply particular forms of externalities, their presence typically suggests government action …