This paper focuses on child mortality in rural India. It uses a flexible duration model framework to analyse data from the National Family Health Survey 1998-99.The estimation results show that socioeconomic factors have significantly different impact at different ages

one point and draw out implications from it for actionable policies to reduce child mortality. The one point is: “there is a world of difference between the proximate causes of a child’s death and policies that can influence these proximate causesâ€.

This paper reports about a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing the first year requirements within one year. Participants were assigned to a high, low and zero (control) reward...