This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing and child mortality in Bangladesh, a country where …

This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been …

engagement and work intensity on the weight of urban working women and men in India. Using nationally representative data, a …

women residing in low-income households in India. We combine pre-intervention data with two rounds of post-intervention data …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face …

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 …

field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …

Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …

In 2007, China launched a subsidized voluntary public health insurance program, the Urban Resident Basic Medical …. We estimate the impact of this program on health care utilization and expenditure using 2006 and 2009 waves of the China …

This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …