in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers … to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments based on the weight‐for‐age nutritional status of children in their … care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only their standard salary. Mothers of children in all three …

providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are …

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 …

affects her children's health, but is also intrinsically linked to her spouse's labor market status and earnings. Paternal … negative effects on their children are compounded. Additionally, the consequences of poor parental health are enduring. Longer …

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 …

health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Children (LSAC), we contribute to the … information on children's health, family background, mothers' pre-birth work histories and mothers' health behaviours during … the effect on multiple conditions is strongest for children from lower socio-economic backgrounds. Our study implies that …

children who were only exposed while in utero. This evidence points to the existence of long-term disruptive effects on the … cohorts of children exposed to the violence. …