is arbitrary depending on if the child is born before or after the year-end. We show that girls who are exposed to one … study the effect of introducing earlier grades in compulsory school on child mental health in Sweden. To do so, we exploit a … grade as was previously the case. The reform provides a situation where the age at which children receive their first grade …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the … timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …

This paper frames the state of mental health policy in India in terms of seven sets of questions, and seeks to provide … momentum in changing the relatively poor state of mental health care in India. …

India's emergence in the world economy over the last decade, has often, in popular discourse, been attributed, at least … to a large extent, to its sustained efforts towards technological learning and capacity building. In this paper we … present an overview of India's technological trajectory with a view to understanding the nuances of India's technological …

for 19 major Indian states over the period 1983-84 to 2007-08, we analyze the contemporaneous and long run impacts of the … rate of profit and its components - profit share, capacity utilization rate, and capacity-capital ratio - on investment …. Our results show that: (a) the rate of profit has both short and long run positive impacts on investment; (b) the profit …

The development and implementation of an efficient institutional food procurement programme (IFPP) - which aims to link … smallholder producers to institutional markets and promote development of food supply systems - is not a simple or straightforward …

some case studies that follow the evolution and impact of what we call 'institutional demand' policies. Institutional …' dependency on state-based market interventions, and review existing evidence of how institutional purchase programmes have … offered through institutional demand: reliable income generation for targeted smallholders and expanded food availability for …