We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …

regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman … margin in India where a substantial number of incumbents do not contest re-election. There is no significant entry of new …

at birth in India. It conducts a triple difference analysis across cohort, birth order and sex of previous births …

more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the … respect to the unusually high incidence of malnutrition in India, and they are topical in the context of current and …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …