We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase … in women's political representation results in a 1.5 percentage point reduction in neonatal mortality. Women politicians …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …

This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using microdata for each of the … fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal … states, scarring effects are large. Indeed, the only other covariate that has a marginal effect on mortality that is as big …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and … higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son …

This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find … steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …

India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …