It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better …

This article discusses son preference in India, including both greater investment in sons and the fertility preference …

employment with adverse effects on children's education, we find that among low-income families, regulatory reforms: increased …What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children's human capital? Using a … parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children's academic performance in low-income families …

female child mortality in India, or about 22,000 "missing girls" each year … breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases …

inequality in those health investments in India. A simple theory of gender-biased parental investment suggests that gender … relationship between gender balance in vaccinations and the availability of "Health Camps" in India. I find support for a non … development, and may provide guidance for health policy in developing countries …

worker focused on pre-school education (for children aged 3-5) in the world's largest public early-childhood program: India …'s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). Adding a worker doubled net instructional time and led to 0.29 and 0.46 standard …Despite growing interest in improving early-childhood education in developing countries, there is little evidence on …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background … development …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is …

India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this … paper, we analyze data for over 174,000 Indian and Sub-Saharan African children to show that Indian firstborns are taller … patterns in the data indicate that India's culture of eldest son preference plays a key role in explaining the steeper birth …