limit investments in some children's education so that they will not find it optimal to migrate when they reach maturity … the family farm or provide care and assistance around the house). However, children themselves may prefer to migrate when …. Because awareness of these high-paying, high education, urban jobs was limited at baseline, the intervention increased the …

breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 …

inequality in those health investments in India. A simple theory of gender-biased parental investment suggests that gender … relationship between gender balance in vaccinations and the availability of quot;Health Campsquot; in India. I find support for a …-series evidence on gender and development, and may provide guidance for health policy in developing countries …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … investments affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health …

number of children and investments in education and health of their children. To address the endogeneity due to the joint … plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV … determination of quantity and quality of children by parents, we instrument family size with the gender of the first child which is …

India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this … paper, we analyze data for over 174,000 Indian and Sub-Saharan African children to show that Indian firstborns are taller … patterns in the data indicate that India's culture of eldest son preference plays a key role in explaining the steeper birth …

particularly child marriage, in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India, where substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with … marriage: bride price across Sub-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in … which parents choose when their children marry, income shocks affect the age of marriage because marriage payments are a …

employment with adverse effects on children’s education, we find that among low-income families, regulatory reforms: increased …What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children’s human capital? Using a … parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children’s academic performance in low-income families …