Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households … housework than boys. Housework is a non-negligible part of child labor in which around 60% of children in our sample are engaged …

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access … to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households … housework than boys. Housework is a non-negligible part of child labor in which around 60% of children in our sample are engaged …

rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically … the SC and the ST households must remain a focus of attention besides promoting a more active labor market in rural India …. -- India ; social groups ; inequality ; quantile regression decomposition …