improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are … among children under five in India. The analytic method combines three types of decomposition: Blinder-Oaxaca, non … conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition …

were less likely to have male children. Moreover, children who were in utero during the most severe period of the …

wide range of outcomes of children of mothers who were exposed in-utero including income, education, employment, and … directly affected and their children. We find that on average, the famine had negative echo effects on second …

consanguinity on child cognitive ability and height-for-age. Children born into consanguineous unions have lower cognitive scores …

stunting's evolution among South African children and adolescents aged 0–19, with particular attention to how the prevalence of …. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living … standards are controlled for, the higher tendency for children in deep rural households to suffer from (severe) stunting …

relationship between early undernutrition and four foundational cognitive skills, the first two of which measure executive …

This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three … groups, a treatment group, a neighboring spillover group, and a non-adjacent pure control group. Mothers of children (aged 3 … children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference …

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 …'s high prevalence of maternal undernutrition and its correlation with age and childbearing can explain this pattern. We find …

findings show that children born in prefectures more exposed to an exogenous change in international trade policy experienced a …