The “missing women” dilemma in India has sparked interest in investigating gender discrimination in the provision of … meager resources on hospitalization of boys rather than girls. We use the 60th Indian National Sample Survey and a … that while the gap in the probability of boys’ and girls’ hospitalization and usage of household income and savings is …

In this study we use data from rural India to examine the impact of the birth of a boy relative to the birth of a girl …

received. Two empirical applications of the index are presented with cross-sectional survey data from India and Kenya …

There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines …

Recent high rates of economic growth in India have been accompanied by major dietary transitions. Using a nationwide … household survey, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper estimates the impact of such transitions on the incidence of … non communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer in India. The estimated deaths from …

There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines …

more clearly relevant. Using state‐level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a …