countries in the south have younger population. India for example, has 60% of its population in the age group of 15-59, with the … physical infrastructure are conducive to rapid economic growth commensurate with the projected demographic dividends for India …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …

This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the … five main NCDs will total USD 27.8 trillion for China and USD 6.2 trillion for India (in 2010 USD). For both countries, the … that the costs are much larger in China than in India mainly because of China's higher income and older population. Rough …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births … sex diagnosis ; ultrasound ; gender ; India ; triple difference estimator ; differences in differences …

India, one of the world's two population superpowers, is undergoing unprecedented demographic changes. Increasing … context, scope, and magnitude of India's demographic changes. It then details the major challenges these shifts pose in the … presents an overview of India's recent and ongoing initiatives to adapt to population aging and provide support to older adults …

remain untested. In this study, we examine the demographic effects of India's national childhood vaccination program (the … preference data of 625,000 adult women from the National Family Health Survey of India 2015-2016. We include women who were born …