This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters … eliciting probabilities. Parents perceive a significant marriage-market return to girls’ education and this drives much of their …

Striking gender gaps persist in fundamental aspects of human welfare. In India, the setting of this paper, these gaps … are particularly large. Interventions often target adolescent girls with the aim of empowering them to make choices that … expose girls, who are often marginalized within their communities, to new risks if it encourages them to violate prevailing …

, morbidities and mortality in India. We draw upon the surveillance experience of four selected States of India namely Uttar Pradesh … systematic population-based chronic disease surveillance in India. Although there are no immediate policy goals to ensure …

premature mortality. In India, 66 percent of all deaths are premature. The burden of premature mortality has shifted from child …-à-vis the former level. Nevertheless, primary health systems continue to focus almost exclusively on child mortality. They need … to make a health system transition and get engaged in the prevention of risk factors, morbidity and mortality related to …