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larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …
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We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus-free in 2014. Average treatment effects on the treated...
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larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that …
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outcomes of children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous … health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than …
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The maternity benefit scheme introduced as Indira Gandhi Matritva Sahyog Yojana (IGMSY) in 2011 and renamed Pradhan Mantri Matriva Sahyog Yojana (PMMVY) in 2017, which incentivizes pregnant and lactating women to participate in various infant health-promoting activities, is India's largest...
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children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous cutoff of … cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that nutrition information alone, even when parents are informed about the … anemia status of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than information might constrain …
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larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that …
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postprandial somnolence on cognitive capacities. Analyzing novel time use data on ~ 4,600 Indian adolescents and young adults, we …
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-being of children and adults. A combination of several factors acting at different levels under the influence of various … world's children who live in India constitute 42% (more than one third) of India’s total population and around 50% of these … children are in need of care and protection. Forty percent of India's children are vulnerable to threats such as trafficking …
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larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …
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