India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional … deprivations, utilizing UNICEF's Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis index, incorporating deficiencies in children …'s access to water, sanitation, housing, healthcare, nutrition, education and information. We identify causal impacts using a …

scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … establishing countries were engaged in during India's colonial history. The results are robust to a series of checks for instrument …

outcomes of children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous … health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than …

This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … shows that households tend to disproportionately reduce investments (prenatal and postnatal) in their female children. This … India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …

Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation … and trip expenditure decisions together. We control for a large set of explanatory variables broadly classified as … have differential affects on each decision. We find that education is an important determinant for both the decisions …

ante political affiliation and jobs received subsequent to large-scale decentralized workfare program in India, we find …

Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education - high unemployment trap in developing … countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively investing in skill development programs. However … field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …

women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data …

can improve their placement outcomes. The study setting is the vocational training programme DDU-GKY in India. We find …

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. …