In this paper, we assess the economic benefits of demographic changes in India by employing econometric models and robustness checks based on panel data gathered over a period of more than three decades. Our analysis highlights four key points. First, the contribution of India’s demographic...

India is on the edge of a demographic revolution with a rapidly rising working-age population. For the first time in this study, we investigate the role of the rising working-age population on per capita small savings in post offices and banks net of socio-economic characteristics using...

Background and Rationale: Lack of a robust analytical tool for trend analysis of population and health indicators is the basic rationale of this study. In an effort to fill this gap, this study advances ‘Change-Point analyzer' as a new analytical tool for assessment of the progress and its...

Globally, India is uniquely important due to the sheer size of its population and the unorthodox trajectory of its changing character. With a population of more than 1.3 billion, it contains nearly 18 percent of the global population and is expected to surpass China (population of 1.38 billion...

Are the fertility rates across the Indian states and socioeconomic spectrum converging? This paper seeks to answer to this question and makes three original contributions: First, a theoretical framework is conceptualised to understand the progress in fertility transition alongside socioeconomic...

This paper explores reverse causation effect of fertility on infant mortality using both time trend and cross-sectional data for India and states. Time series and panel data regression model estimates on macro level trend data, revealed an explicable reverse causation effect of fertility on the...

Investment in family planning (FP) provides returns through a lifetime. Global evidence shows that FP is the second-best buy in terms of return on investment after liberalizing trade. In this study, we estimate the cumulative benefits of FP investments for India from 1991 to 2016 and project...

This thesis comes out at a time when the debate on between-state and social group demographic and health inequalities continues to be largely debated based on most recent available information. However, analyses based on the recent demographic and health data have serious limitations in terms of...