India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …'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 …

covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight …This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program …

The impact of group-based credit programs on the nutritional status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is … evaluated. Lacking exclusion restrictions of the usual sort, the effect of credit program participation by gender of participant … statistically significant impact on two of three measures of the nutritional well-being of both boy and girl children. Credit …

This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … shows that households tend to disproportionately reduce investments (prenatal and postnatal) in their female children. This … India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …