We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …

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 …

We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio …-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus …

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 …

assigned. We estimate multivariate latent skill profiles for individual children and compare treatments and controls. We …

via "graduation" from the scheme, and find a positive effect on children in households that graduated just before 2013 …, but none for children in households that remain in the programme …