-specific, this difference will be shown to be driven by birth planning; children born in auspicious years are more likely to have …We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to …

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. The implications for breastfeeding …

order to elicit views from stakeholders who are mainly mothers, pregnant women and lactating mothers and children and the … immunization services and health and nutrition education was minutely assessed. URL:[http://wcd.nic.in/]. …

Age is one of the core topics in Census. In Census 2011, for the first time data on both date of birth and age has been …

the foundations of India’s human resources — the health and wellbeing of our hundreds of millions of children. Without … reasonably good health the prospects for learning and skill development are bleak … and without that so is our long term future …

conflict, Leon exploit the variation in war location and birth cohorts of children to identify the effect of the civil war on ….21 less years of education as an adult. In the short-term, the effects are stronger than in the long run. Further, children … evidence shows that the effect on mother's health status and the subsequent effect on child health is what drives the long …

This paper focusses on the current health profile of the state of Maharashtra, and its performance as against other … growth driven states like Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. Using parameters such as birth rate, death rate, infant mortality rate …, maternal mortality rates, among other, the author also reviews the inter-district performance of Maharashtra in health …

Adolescent fertility in low- and middle-income countries presents a severe impediment to development and can lead to …

clustering. Regional analysis reveals that economic, social and health indicators display spatial patterns as strong as fertility … of non-demographic data, models of fertility determinants and district-wise mapping to test out the presence of regional … rates. All recent models of fertility incorporate a significant geographical component (using dummy regional variables or …