Observing rapid structural transformation accompanied by a continual process of rural to urban migration in many …. Furthermore, the increase in college admission selectivity for rural students plays a crucial but negative role in China …'s development, lowering per capita output and worsening the high-skilled employment share in urban areas …

this hypothesis using nationally representative data from rural India. We use birth size as a measure of initial health …

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 …

pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … significantly depress the average price of these commodities imported from high-income trading partners, suggesting that India and …

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

in rural Odisha, India. This is a group for whom highly-gendered norms around marriage, mobility and work are likely to …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the persistence of low spatial and marital mobility in rural India, despite … smooth consumption in rural India for the foreseeable future, as they have for centuries, unless alternative consumption …

two districts of Uttar Pradesh, India. The net profit generated ignoring labour costs, gives rise to a small positive rate …

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India … decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves …