This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where …

, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the exogenous variation in community's access to …

-development spending ; India …

Inter- and intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized …

The Government of India is implementing a new policy which dramatically increases funding for a cash transfer program … with little understanding of poverty among India's elderly or its determinants. This paper finds that households with …

this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a … unique district-level panel data-set from 17 major states of India for the period 1992-2002 that we compile highlight a … for the findings. -- private school growth ; universal literacy ; gender gap ; Millennium Development Goals ; India, Asia …

Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present … endogenous in India because parents continue to have children until they have a son. To redress this potential endogeneity, we …