influenced less by the individual’s parents and more by her potential. In an application to 54 state-regions in India (1983 …

, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …

inheritance rights to Indian women on the quantity and quality of children and son preference. Using a difference …-in-differences methodology, we find that women who were affected by the state reforms had 0.35 more children. The increase in the number of sons … born to treated women was higher than the number of daughters. To assess the federal reform we use a panel data of women …

Education is generally believed to be beneficial in fostering, independent of gender, higher labor productivity. Female … education may, however, cause other socio-economic gains which are not captured by higher wage or better compensation package … enhancing female education and reducing gender education inequality on various measures of sustainable development. After …