increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian …

essential for children's health and development. The effects are larger for fully subsidized children relative to partially … nutrition programs. Using data on fifth grade public elementary school children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study …-Kindergarten (2003-2004), we find significant increases in weekly rates of consumption amongst fully and partially subsidized children …

institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a … participation of women at local governance led to an increased survival rate of children belonging to richer households. We argue …

bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in rural India. Exploiting variation in firstborn …

using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results … and parental support for translating science skills into higher earnings. Science education is also associated with more … years of education, likelihood of completing a professional degree, and among low ability students, working in public sector …

using nationally representative data on high school subject choices and adult outcomes for urban males in India. Results … and parental support for translating science skills into higher earnings. Science education is also associated with more … years of education, likelihood of completing a professional degree, and among low ability students, working in public sector …

earnings and English ability. In this paper, we use a newly available data set – the India Human Development Survey, 2005 – to …India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has …-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is unknown due to lack of a microdata set containing measures of both …

group by education, gender, and geographical location. -- Caste ; employment ; wage differentials ; public sector ; India … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … outcome is also reflected in their higher household consumption expenditure. Overall, the effects vary within each minority …

state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause … ; minorities ; India …

accorded priority by the policymakers in Bihar. -- education ; enrollment ; out-of-school ; Bihar ; India …This paper assesses the status of education, both quantity and quality, in Bihar in both absolute terms and relative to … other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates …