random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed …

systems of mortality and health statistics are often absent. The economic analysis of health naturally places a special focus … to education in rural West Africa. Concretely it deals with the collection and analysis of mortality, morbidity, and …

states and for urban and rural India (NFHS-2, 1998/9), we select our sample drawing information from the household data set …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely … mechanisms. A recent OECD-dominated literature shows that mortality at most ages is pro-cyclical but similar analyses for poorer … countries are scarce, and both income risk and mortality risk are greater in poor countries. This paper uses individual data on …

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their mother´s working status when the … mother´s participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health … Survey (NFHS-2) for India, we find that, controlling for many covariates among which wealth is the most powerful predictor …

of maternal autonomy on school enrolment age of children in India. The school entry age is modelled using a discrete time … by using proxy measures collected in the third round of the National Family Health Survey of India, on information … states in India - Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh. Our results indicate that female autonomy is not associated with …

Between 2004/2005 and 2009/2010 there was a sharp fall in female labor force participation (LFP) in rural India. Why …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India. …

by addressing the subsidies and cost recovery of the existing tariff policy in the context of Uttar Pradesh (UP), India …

This paper develops a new methodology to analyze how parents in Rajasthan, India make choices about their daughters …