Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings …

the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011–2012) with …

Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper … 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 …

infant health-promoting activities, is India's largest conditional cash transfer program thus far. We approach IGMSY …, but that it will make only a small contribution to redressing India's dismal child-health record. …'s geographically targeted pilot phase as a natural experiment and use data from a large national health survey to estimate its effects …

Lack of information about health risks may limit adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper … studies the effect of nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, child health, and cognitive ability of … children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous cutoff of …

The empirical evidence on the inter-generational effects of maternal health interventions is inconclusive, particularly … the impact on cognitive ability of children. In this paper, we study one such popular policy from India, viz, the Janani … Suraksha Yojana (JSY) which is a agship health and safe motherhood program. We exploit plausible exogenous variation in …

to public primary schools to prepare mid-day meal in one of the poorest regions of India. The DFS treatment had … significantly positive impacts on hemoglobin levels and reduced the prevalence of anemia by 20 percent but these health gains did …

Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …