Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally …; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas …

We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning may mitigate this effect. Student fixed … learning time. New nationwide, school-level measures of air-conditioning penetration suggest patterns consistent with such … infrastructure largely offsetting heat's effects. Without air-conditioning, a 1°F hotter school year reduces that year's learning by …

provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …

We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare … 2.5 million rural children in India, we show that each year of exposure to NREGS decreases school enrollment by 2 …

graduating class from an elite engineering institution (EEI) in India we evaluate the impact of affirmative action policies in …

We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … country between the contributions of capital accumulation and TFP to growth in output per worker over the period 1978 … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …

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 …

plausibly random. Given a strong son-preference in India, parents tend to have more children if the first born is a girl. Our IV …