This paper examines how well consumption is insured against income shocks using a panel of households from rural Punjab during the green revolution years. I estimate the effects of income changes on consumption, after controlling for aggregate shocks through changes in village level consumption....

In this paper we use child level data from Pakistan to estimate the probability of child mortality. We find that overall girls have a higher probability of surviving and when we look at disaggregated data we find that relative to boys, girls have a significantly lower probability of dying in the...