-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the … children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold … bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also …

care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a …Non-unitary household models suggest that enhancing women's bargaining power can influence child health, a crucial … Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses …

households and community health workers for every live birth, this program altered existing trends in prenatal sex selection … role played by community health workers in facilitating the program is a key driver of the decline in prenatal sex …

In this paper we estimate production functions for cognition and health throughout four stages of childhood from 5 …-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production … function include parental background, prior child cognition and health and child investments. We allow investments to be …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health at … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production …

India is home to some 120 million children under the age of 5, 36 percent of whom are chronically malnourished. The … larger than the India-Africa gap, but that children from the socio-economically dominant group, the upper caste Hindus, are …