health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female … fetuses. This paper examines the impacts of this on girl relative to boy mortality rates after birth, using data from 1973 …

birth-order of the child, woman's living in small city and town as well as wealth index of the household slides down the … prenatal visit, final say on woman's health-care (husband alone) and household wealth. The birth-order of the child and small …