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more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data …
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The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …
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India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated …
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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 … scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …
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weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases …
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to unmarried women in India, on child height. We find robust evidence that the HSAA improved the height and weight of …
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We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...
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and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. -- fertilizer agrichemicals ; water pollutants ; child … health ; infant mortality ; India …
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