school hours. We conduct a lab-in-the field experiment, leveraging the extension of India's school meal program from primary …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … villages by health workers by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for the two groups in state … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

This study evaluates the impact of depression treatment on economic behavior in Karnataka, India. We cross …

the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011–2012) with …

Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper … 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 …

In India, 52-98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …