importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother's education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly … cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …

on total energy expenditure. In addition, the 10 percent decline in the population share of children in the period raised … employment surveys are used to estimate the separate components of total energy expenditure related to metabolism and physical … average total energy expenditures considerably as children have much lower metabolic requirements and activity levels than …

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

counter-lobbying from downstream users on endogenous protection. Applied to India, it yields results that are qualitatively …This Paper proposes a new method to test the Grossman-Helpman model of endogenous protection and lobby formation. This … trade protection purposes and calculates equilibrium contributions directly from the model using structural parameter …

. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more working-age adults are likely to grow faster than cities with more children … ratios, that is, with more children and/or seniors per working-age adult, grow significantly slower. Such effects are … particularly pronounced for cities with high shares of children. This result appears to be driven mainly by the direct, negative …

-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on education outcomes at different points in time, namely in 1917 and in the … 1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals … indeed foreign-educated individuals promote democracy in their home country, but only if the foreign education is acquired in …