To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 … determinants of the height gap between children in India and sub-Saharan Africa as Jayachandran & Pande (2... …

's access to water, sanitation, housing, healthcare, nutrition, education and information. We identify causal impacts using a … women's constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from … India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …

shows that households tend to disproportionately reduce investments (prenatal and postnatal) in their female children. This … results on postnatal channels show substantial impacts on the long-term health outcomes of surviving girls, as rainfall no …