This paper provides a framework for analyzing constraints that apply specifically to women, which theory suggests may … have negative impacts on child outcomes (as well as on women). We classify women's constraints into four dimensions: (i … women's constraints on child outcomes using nationally representative household Demographic and Health Survey data from …

health indicators such as health status of women during pregnancy, nutritional status of women and children and other general … indicators of child health which directly or indirectly reflect the health status of women and children. Analysis has been done … indicated that huge health disparities in the health status of the women and children belonging to SCs, STs and OBCs do exist …

The present paper is the analysis of situation of children and women in India in terms the disparities that persist …

children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold …. Therefore, policies that empower women can have additional positive spillovers for children's human capital. …-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the …

larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human …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 …