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

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 …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …

This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …

inequality in family environments. Schools do little to reduce or enlarge the gaps in skills that are present when children enter …

Income tax burdens on family units are adjusted to reflect differences in ability to pay attributable to whether the … exists over the appropriate forms of adjustment, and existing approaches to taxation of the family vary greatly across … jurisdictions. This article derives equitable relative tax burdens for different family configurations from a utilitarian welfare …

family and fertility practices, and attitudes in the job market). It is, however, the pervasive evidence of the resilience of …

estimate a joint dynamic model of the behavior of older and younger siblings that allows for family specific effects …