mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … evidence of pure son preference in rural India. The girls in rural China do not face bias in financial investment by parents …This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of …

explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … at the beginning of the survey period by 2004. This all-India trajectory masks widely varying trends across states … indirect impact attributable to the positive effect of non-farm employment growth on agricultural wages. The analysis also …