I evaluate the impact of the right to education from the passing of the Right to Education Act in India in 2009. This … Act guaranteed free education to children aged 6-14 years, including children with disabilities. Given that the school … study estimation and an interrupted time series research design and find that the Right to Education Act led to a 60 per …

-10 schools to create grade 1-10 'model' schools. Twenty-three per cent of government schools were eliminated in this education … proportion of children studying in a school with a principal by 0.1, and increased the number of teachers in a village by 0.7. I …

importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother's education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the …, the results for Jharkhand state in India and Barisal province in Bangladesh indicate that controlling for those commonly … cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …

This study aims to examine the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years of … according to health indicator and geographic region. Specifically, geographic location, parents’ education, and parental wealth …

poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects of clientelism on … development outcomes is lacking. In this paper we examine the relationship between political clientelism, public goods provision … political clientelism on development outcomes, with increases in clientelism leading to lower coverage of welfare programmes …

on total energy expenditure. In addition, the 10 percent decline in the population share of children in the period raised … employment surveys are used to estimate the separate components of total energy expenditure related to metabolism and physical … average total energy expenditures considerably as children have much lower metabolic requirements and activity levels than …

political clientelism in the delivery of social programmes in India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local …