order to elicit views from stakeholders who are mainly mothers, pregnant women and lactating mothers and children and the … immunization services and health and nutrition education was minutely assessed. URL:[http://wcd.nic.in/]. …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding …

of children dependent on prostitutes in Uttar Pradesh. Thus, it is imperative to conduct a field survey in the state of … Uttar Pradesh to examine the social problem of trafficking and prostitution in children and women and status of children …

tuition, parents’ education, household and village characteristics are retained. In addition, this year ASER tests mothers … on their numeracy skills. For the first time, ASER 2010 introduces questions on critical thinking for children in Std. 5 …

Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …

.21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children … conflict, Leon exploit the variation in war location and birth cohorts of children to identify the effect of the civil war on …

In this paper a particular market failure that may lead to inefficiently low equilibrium fertility and therefore to a … need for government intervention are analysed. The friction which is investigated is related to the ownership of children … than the social benefit. We present an overlapping-generations (OLG) model with fertility choice and altruism, and model …

-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to …