plausibly exogenous source of income variation. Rainfall shocks matter most for young children and monotonically decline with … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a …

Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … expenditures in India. Contrary to most previous research, I find evidence of discrimination against girls. Results at the all-India …

The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The …

steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … infant mortality for about 150000 children born in 1970-1997, merged by birth-cohort with a state panel containing … mortality risks of children born at different times to the same mother, conditional upon a number of state-time varying …