In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … the government. In this paper, we use data on 2,901 slums from four waves of the National Sample Survey (NSS) spanning … deprivation, non-notified slums were much less likely to receive financial aid from government slum improvement schemes. Our …

This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three …-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are given recipe books in the treatment group to reduce malnutrition in their …

We examine educational transmission between fathers (mothers) and daughters in India for daughters born during 1962 …') educational distribution. We also find that "Equality of Opportunity" remains an elusive goal for India. Not only the probability …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … among adult women. Impacts on anemic status are driven by the growth of PM2.5 pollution attributable to emissions from coal … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …

) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for Indian rural women. We instrument use of … average is calculated leaving the concerned household. We find no impact of LPG on the probability of women participating in … spent in cooking and employment is mostly driven by married women. …

on various measures of women's agency and health in India. Identification leverages the plausibly exogenous spatial … women's well-being and economic status. The analysis focuses on the impact of proximity to mineral deposits and active mines … variation in the occurrence of mineral deposits across districts. Results indicate that women's outcomes improve in the vicinity …

We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … Origin Hypothesis. We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and … measures of mental acuity. Our findings on the health impacts of fetal malnutrition on middle-age survivors suggest that it …

This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in … utero as a natural experiment, under the assumption that some Muslim women might have fasted during Ramadan when they were …

malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy … outcomes. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey (MHSS), we find that women who were pregnant during the famine … during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …