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 …

the delivery of India's largest social protection program (subsidized food) in the state of Jharkhand. By itself …

This paper explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth … the district-level using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East) and Madras (South). We find …

behaviors. This paper explores the effect of the introduction of cable television on gender attitudes in rural India. Using a … the results are not driven by pre-existing differential trends. These results have important policy implications, as India …

We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …'s aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …

This paper empirically examines India's economic growth experience during 1960-2004, focusing on the post 1973 … acceleration. Careful attention is paid to data quality. The analysis focuses on two unusual dimensions of India's experience … raised that growth in services may be overstated. India will need to broaden its current expansion to provide manufactured …

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 …

We explore the impact of British colonial institutions on the economic development of India. In some regions, the …