The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) – the largest food subsidy program in India – has been a dismal failure … in targeting the poor. The present paper examines its performance in three Indian states – Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra …

This study investigates whether mother's empowerment as measured by mother's relative (to father) bargaining power …

This study investigates whether mother's empowerment as measured by her bargaining power relative to father's affects … children's nutritional status using the three rounds of NFHS data in India. First, the relative educational attainment of …, the quantile regression results show strong associations between women's bargaining power and better nutritional status of …

regression results show strong associations between women’s empowerment and better nutritional status of children in the long run …This study investigates whether mother’s empowerment measured by her education attainment relative to father …’s, domestic violence, and autonomy is related to children’s nutritional status using the three rounds of NFHS data in India. First …