-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre …-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among the treated may be explained by the fact … that the reform has facilitated re-entry of a negative health selection into the labor market. …

regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find that women's mental health is worse than men's along the four metrics we collected …

Pradesh, India, in which we provide an information brief about COVID-19 by phone to a random subsample of participants to …

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases …-participants relative to women in untreated districts. -- women's empowerment ; community-level interventions ; impact evaluation ; India …

Since the early 1990s, several states in India have introduced financial incentive programs to discourage son … preference among parents and to encourage investments in daughters' education and health. This study evaluates one such program …, nutritional status, immunization, schooling) using statewide household survey data on fertility and child health and constructing …