Between 1991 and 2001, Gujarat has registered one of the steepest declines in the proportion of female to male children in the 0-6 year age group. The extent of decline revealed in the provisional figures of the Census 2001, is serious in the rural areas and alarming in the urban. Further, the...

Child sex ratios pattern in the Asian Population is highly masculine mainly due to birth masculinity and gender bias in child mortality. The vast and the growing literature of female deficit in world population points out the diffusion of child sex ratio pattern in many Asian as well as...

Fertility differentials among the Hindus and the Muslims in India are a matter of concern, which attracts scholars of different disciplines not only in India, but also outside as well. But surprisingly systematic analysis of fertility pattern among these religion sub groups has not been...

Using the two consecutive thick rounds of National Sample Survey data, we investigate the role of stigma, the economy's structure, potential selection bias, and sectoral differences in explaining the low labor force participation (LFP) of middle and secondary educated women in India relative to...

Perceptive scholars have repeatedly drawn policy makers' attention to the recent marked deterioration in some major deficit indicators of the state government finance of India. During recent years, the increasing trend of fiscal deficits and its relation with revenue deficit have been viewed as...

Equal access to educational opportunity is a basic human right essential to well being. Yet educational gap at attainment levels between male and female in India is staggering. Reduction in such gap is essential for more than one reason. Latest population census 2001 indicates considerable...

India's fertility is declining and at present the country is experiencing significant demographic transition. The fertility pattern at the district level shows robust spatial clustering of low fertility values and its spatial propagation with time. While the role of the socio-economic...

There may be two main reasons causing Child Labour. The first one is poverty and the second one is lack of education. In case of third world counties, it may be apparent that poverty may be the only reasons for Child Labour. But Iftikar Ahamed (1999) has actually concluded that Child Labour is...