Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India … (religious) aversion to abortion among Muslims. These districts exhibit increases in fertility that offset the decrease in girl …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. We investigate their impact on son-biased fertility stopping behavior, parental investments in girls relative to boys …, and the relative chances of girls surviving after birth. We find a moderation of son-biased fertility, erosion of gender …

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

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 …

productivity. Overall, the effect of economic liberalization in India seems to have been better than in other countries …

This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … both fertility and labour force participation are subject to multiple constraints. We observe that, while technological … fertility, policy has not achieved as much as it might. …

instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …