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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … shows that households tend to disproportionately reduce investments (prenatal and postnatal) in their female children. This … India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …

outcomes of children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous … health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than …

Since October 2014, the Government of India has worked towards a goal of eliminating open defecation by 2019 through … India. Here, we report results from a late 2018 survey that revisited households from the 2014 survey in four states: Bihar …

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … level data of India for the year 2011–12 is used to examine the relationship between educational attainment and labour … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women's education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …

of "jobless growth", India has experienced concentrated employment growth, mainly in urban areas and for men. This has … remains a defining feature with rising informalization in the formal sector. Some outcomes partly reflect India's overall … level of economic development. At the same time, structural transformation in other countries, including those in the region …

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 …