more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups – children of uneducated poor women living in rural India …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …

fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal …

institutional births and child mortality in the state of Bihar, India. Using the difference-in-differences methodology, we find a …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …

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 … set of demographic surveys, a disadvantage in child height for later birth orders in India relative to Africa's birth …

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 …