Engel curve shifted down-especially in rural India- over the period 1993–2004. The puzzle for the longer period analysed by … capita household expenditure, across the expenditure scale, in 2004. In trying to resolve this puzzle, they are emphatic that … consumption-through both own and cross-price effects — is confirmed. Although calorieincome/ expenditure elasticities are large …

framework, with food prices and expenditure (as a proxy for income) cast in a pivotal role. Based on different experiments … urban areas. Our results show consistently robust food price and expenditure effects. Besides, shifts in food price …

increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian …

increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to India as country confronted with both higher … sex ratio and shortage of girls is associated with their illegal trafficking in India. Using panel data of 29 Indian …

worker focused on pre-school education (for children aged 3-5) in the world's largest public early-childhood program: India …'s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS). Adding a worker doubled net instructional time and led to 0.29 and 0.46 standard …Despite growing interest in improving early-childhood education in developing countries, there is little evidence on …

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in … relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …

at the all-India and the state levels are reported and commented upon. Changes in magnitudes & proportions of children in …Children (under 15 years of age) growing up in poor and/or nutritionally deprived households also live with a number of … layers of deprivations that stifle their freedom to actively participate in and benefit from elementary school education …

years old children reveal a grimmer story of child undernutrition than conventional anthropometric indicators do. Besides … respiratory infection), however, offers some justification for the disaggregated classification of undernourished children used … here. Specifically, those with more than one failure were worse-off in this respect than children with no failure. There is …