This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation … in legislator identity generated by close elections between Muslim and non-Muslim candidates. We find that increasing the …

on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is that an increase in per-capita Muslim expenditures generates a …. These findings speak to the origins of Hindu-Muslim violence in post-Independence India …

The Right to Education Act in 2009 guaranteed access to free primary education for all children in India ages 6 …

developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50 percent of …

this hypothesis using nationally representative data from rural India. We use birth size as a measure of initial health …

In this paper, we shed new light on a long-standing puzzle: In India, Muslim children are substantially more likely … advantage accrues not to Muslim households themselves but rather to their neighbors, who are also likely to be Muslim …

infant mortality from a developing country, the paper examines the effectiveness of India's environmental regulations. 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 …

This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …