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

Skill development is increasingly viewed as a way to escape the low education – high unemployment trap in developing … countries. Consequently, policy makers in these countries are extensively investing in skill development programs. However … field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …

vocational trainees on their employment outcomes. The setting of the study is the vocational training program DDU-GKY in India …

children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated … parities. An examination of the various mechanisms linking between prenatal sex selection and children outcomes suggests that …

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … by using proxy measures collected in the third round of the National Family Health Survey of India, on information … states in India – Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. Our results indicate that female autonomy is not associated with …

level are robust to the statistical method and the education expenditure measure, while they are more sensitive to changes …Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has … often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques in this field to analyze education …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households … housework than boys. Housework is a non-negligible part of child labor in which around 60% of children in our sample are engaged …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … hand, has a negative effect on children's education. Further, the estimated impact of mother's program participation is … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other …

groups – children of uneducated poor women living in rural India … quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations …