state in the south of India, we examine average and marginal returns to cattle. One variant of our identification strategy …

In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether … their cohorts and/or a possible alliance with the dominant elite. -- Literacy among women and low caste ; dominant landed …-development spending ; India …

for the findings. -- private school growth ; universal literacy ; gender gap ; Millennium Development Goals ; India, Asia …Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set the agenda for the attainment of universal literacy by 2015 primarily to be … this respect. Using India as an important case in point, we intend to bridge this gap of the literature. Results using a …

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 …

We investigate the impact of groundwater contamination on educational outcomes in India. Our study leverages variations …-contaminated regions in India, we find that prolonged exposure to unsafe groundwater is associated with increased school absenteeism, grade …

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of … analysis. First, the EKC does not hold for most pollutants, and its validity crucially depends on the estimation techniques …