This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a … health and education at least as highly as the' commercial' ones … poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine …

India's rural roads program, Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, aims to draw villagers into the mainstream by improving … not only their terms of trade, but also their educational attainments and health. Treating each all-weather feeder road as …

This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey …

The infrastructure gap is one of the most significant impediments to India realizing its growth and poverty reduction … potential. Although India?s transport network is one of the most extensive in the world, accessibility and connectivity are … upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. The analysis uses a difference-in-difference estimation strategy …

with the Minister of Education and with children enrich the multivariate regression results. The multiple sources of child … labor appear to include, in particular, the structure of the economy, social norms and no returns to rural basic education … children's education and later opportunities …

This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … that never used the improved stove. This is a substantial effect with implications for greater health and well … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …

This paper uses a prospective randomized trial to assess the impact of two school feeding schemes on health and … education outcomes for children from low-income households in northern rural Burkina Faso. The two school feeding programs under …

on the quality of public health services. The program had a strong emphasis on organizing women, who also identified … health services as a development priority at baseline. Assessing the program at midline, the paper finds that the … mobilization effort alone had a significant impact on the performance of village-based health providers. The study detects …