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

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 …

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 …

order gradient.They interpret this pattern as discrimination against later birth-order children in India. This paper …The poor state of child health in India has generated a number of puzzles that have received attention in the …-life survival advantage in India accruing to later birth orders, which they interpret as the result of a pattern of improving …

India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16.Outcomes are measured as multidimensional … deprivations, utilizing UNICEF's Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis index, incorporating deficiencies in children … Lewbel specification and present an array of additional econometric strategies and robustness checks. We find that children …

scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today …This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … establishing countries were engaged in during India's colonial history. The results are robust to a series of checks for instrument …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … young children (aged 0–5 years), the number of coal units in the district in the month and year of birth significantly … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face …

Childhood vaccines can increase population growth in the short term by improving the survival rates of young children …. Over the long run, reductions in child mortality rates are associated with lower demand for children and fertility rates … remain untested. In this study, we examine the demographic effects of India’s national childhood vaccination program (the …

weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …