documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes … correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation …

paper finds that religion shapes the entrepreneurial decision. In particular, some religions, such as Islam and Christianity …While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision …

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both … unexplored. We address this lacuna in the literature, and explore the determinants of the differences in inter-caste and inter-religion …

attainments in India. Individual-level data from two successive rounds of the National Sample Survey suggest that considerable … numerous socio-economic and parental covariates, and the Muslim educational disadvantage in India today is greater than that …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …

and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations … groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …