This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … as other types of work) in addition to hours. Third, we use mother's fertility intentions as an alternative measure of …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … as other types of work) in addition to hours. Third, we use mother's fertility intentions as an alternative measure of …'s treatment. -- son preference ; child labor ; housework ; India ; National Family Health Survey …

We construct a joint distribution of fertility and children's activities treating the Poisson process generating the … allow for unobserved influences on fertility to affect children's activities, thus enabling us to make a distinction between … parameters of our models. We find that the effect of fertility has a large downward bias in naive models. The marginal effect of …

fertilizer industry has received impetus with the Green revolution making India the third largest fertilizer producer and the …