. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data …

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 …

women's intra-household bargaining power to their mortality risk. Using a structural model of households, I estimate the age … age, and that women's relative poverty rates closely match their higher than expected mortality rates by age. This match …

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth … by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher … better health care implies that mortality could be the source of a poverty trap. In our regressions, adult mortality explains …