This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the …. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on food? Second, are there gender inequalities in the distribution … respect to the unusually high incidence of malnutrition in India, and they are topical in the context of current and …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

This study examines the role of women’s intra-household status relative to men in children’s food security in Pakistan … women’s intra-household status and children’s food security. …

developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes … via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and … program is associated with better educational outcomes of their children. Father's participation in the NREGS, on the other …

mitigate the identification problem posed by observational data, I design a survey experiment with poor households in India. I …' beliefs about the human capital production function and their preferences for inequality in children's outcomes, as well as … inequality concerns over children's final outcomes. Because parents perceive investment to be 12 percent more productive for the …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …

We examine social preferences of Swedish and Austrian children and adolescents using the experimental design of …