school hours. We conduct a lab-in-the field experiment, leveraging the extension of India's school meal program from primary …

In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …

the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011–2012) with …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … villages by health workers by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for the two groups in state … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … villages by health workers by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for the two groups in state … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What …