the economic health and social outcomes of the elderly. Our results found that the elderly in India are highly exposed to … negative impacts due to vulnerability in socio-economic and health spheres of life. Low labor force participation, lack of …, the fiscal challenges include increased income tax and insurance coverage for the elderly, while health challenges imply a …

population density and the extent of tests conducted to fine tune the index. The association between per capita health … expenditure and relative performance indices reveals that there are states where relatively sound health infrastructure has not … ensured better performance in curing patients and those relatively weak have done better. But with a multi-dimensional health …

. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data … health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

This study examines the variation in mortality and mortality trends among different regions in India since the 1970s …. The Gini coefficient and dispersion measure of mortality confirm the convergence of mortality across the regions in India … mortality in children under the age of 15 years. In the 1990s and early 2000s, the contribution of both young and adult age …

households and community health workers for every live birth, this program altered existing trends in prenatal sex selection …. This improvement comes at a cost, as we observe an increase in under5 mortality for girls born at higher birth orders … role played by community health workers in facilitating the program is a key driver of the decline in prenatal sex …

This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The …

there remains huge room for improvement in education, health, and women’s economic participation. …

The excess female mortality in India and other South Asian countries is no longer contentious. Less known are the … reasons for such excess female mortality in the country. In this study, we argue that intra-household gender-discrimination in … as a health indicator variable. The multinomial logit results show that keeping all other factors constant, girls are 1 …