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in children's nutritional outcomes. Using data from the Third Round of the National Family Health Survey for India …
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Using two nationally representative datasets from household surveys conducted in India in 2005 and 2012, the present … endogenous in India because parents continue to have children until they have a son. To redress this potential endogeneity, we …
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We study how attendance rates of primary school children respond to cost neutral changes in the design of India …
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, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper …
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disproportionately concentrated in India. We identify a large effect of birth order on neonatal mortality that is unique to India: later …-born siblings have a steep survival advantage relative to the birth order gradient in other developing countries. We show that India …
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The poor state of child health in India has generated a number of puzzles that have received attention in the …-life survival advantage in India accruing to later birth orders, which they interpret as the result of a pattern of improving … set of demographic surveys, a disadvantage in child height for later birth orders in India relative to Africa's birth …
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facts exploiting a unique survey question on casteism in India, which we show is associated with rent-seeking. …
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-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over …
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This paper asks whether gender bias in education expenditure in rural India fell over the two-decade period from 1995 … biases in education spending are a within-household phenomenon in rural India. …
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Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation … rate remains very low in India. In this paper, we examine the factors responsible for the difference in female labor force …
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