random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …-oriented choices of households. -- Time discounting ; gender ; children ; experiment ; India …

suggest that there is significant heterogeneity with respect to maternal education. More educated mothers appear to compensate … educated mothers reinforce these differences. Most importantly, there is evidence that these compensatory investments are … associated with the narrowing of non-cognitive deficits over time for children of more educated mothers, while there is no …

that mothers make in newborns: breastfeeding and stimulation. We find heterogeneity across mothers in expected effort costs …

The present paper provides new evidence that hospital delivery can significantly lower child mortality risks …, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the exogenous variation in community's access to … delivery on various mortality rates among children born during 2002-2007. Our best estimates come from the parents fixed …

reduced maternal mortality by 6 to 7 percent. In addition, we find that requiring midwives to be licensed may have had led to … modest reductions in nonwhite infant mortality and mortality among children under the age of 2 from diarrhea. These estimates …

Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction … of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal mortality. In terms of mechanisms, it also … reinforcing evidence from the period in which the United States experienced rapid declines in maternal mortality. The historical …

and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of …

suggest that these impacts were also observed when considering maternal mortality, though effects are less precisely estimated. …

We provide estimates of impacts on maternal mortality of swings in US aid for family planning and maternal health … the average worldwide decline in maternal mortality achieved since 1990. …