The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was … nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …, and greater use of preventive health inputs. Some benefits also diffused beyond the boundaries of the program villages …

In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in … children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in … India. We further examine various channels through which prenatal sex selection might affect girls' outcomes. Using repeated …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development … health and the three measures of religion/religiosity. Those children (self-report or primary caregiver report) who have … overall health and psychological health of the child. Three measures of religion/religiosity of the child are employed …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … plausibly exogenous source of income variation. Rainfall shocks matter most for young children and monotonically decline with …

portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether …: lower female outlay equivalent ratios for adult goods; greater sensitivity of household health spending to young boys than … to young girls; and high male sex ratios. No evidence is found to support the third hypothesis. …

Sex ratios (males to females) rose markedly in China in the last two decades, and crime rates nearly doubled. This …

In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han … strict enforcement of the one-child policy has led to 4.4 extra boys per 100 girls in the 1980s, accounting for about 94% of … boys per 100 girls for the 1991-2005 birth cohort. The effect of the one-child policy accounts for about 57% and 54% of the …