We study the role of colonial education investments on post-independence outcomes in India using district-level data for 148 districts of former British India. Controlling for observable differences in geographical endowments and income between districts, OLS estimates suggest large and positive...

This paper suggests that history is essential to an understanding of the challenges facing health policy in India today. Institutional trajectories matter, and the paper tries to show that a history of under-investment and poor health infrastructure in the colonial period continued to shape the...