discriminatory practices affected fertility and sex-specific mortality during infancy and childhood during economic crises in an area … economic stress, fertility, and sex ratios at baptism: high-price years were followed by a decline in the number of registered … economic stress, mortality, and sex ratios at death. Using death registers further supports this interpretation, since our …

What are the effects of childhood immunization program (UIP) on women's fertility and birth spacing? I examine the … effect of this immunization program on women's subsequent fertility and birth spacing by exploiting district … reduces the likelihood of subsequent and cumulative fertility of women and increases the birth intervals between first and …

reveal two significant trends in the service sector following liberalization in 1991: growth in service sector productivity … and growth in services' trade. The objective of this paper is to build a simple three sector quantitative model which can … two exogenous changes that occur across the two steady states years, 1980 and 1999: growth in sectoral total factor …

between economic growth and income inequity. We develop a simple model to establish that economic growth and inequality can … (economic growth). Our findings for the Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), People Republic of China and India (ACI …) economies are two-fold: first, we observed that for low values of economic growth, inequality and growth bear an inverted U …

hypothesis of growth transitions. The results show that the first phase of India’s faster-growing regime during 1980-2002 was … significant amount of untapped long-run growth potential. Consistent with the prediction of the model, the growth surge … experienced during 2003-2007 reflects the capital accumulation-driven part of the growth transition. Despite the turbulent years …

This paper examines the factors responsible for generating the services led growth witnessed in the Indian economy … during 1980–2005. A sectoral growth accounting exercise shows that total factor productivity (TFP) growth was the fastest for … services; moreover this TFP increase was significant in accounting for service sector value added growth. A growth model with …

lower economic growth; and that the former also implies a reduction in per capita GDP, while the latter distorts the …

malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy … during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …

Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …

higher mortality rates when more exposed to tariff declines. Consistent with the fertility-sex ratio trade-off in high son … preference societies, fertility increases for low-status women and decreases for high-status women. An exploration of the …