Acute respiratory infections and diarrhea, has been globally identified, as poising major threats to survival of children under the age of five. This is also true for India, where these two diseases, have been the major causes behind infant mortality both in 1997 as well as 1998. Prevention as...

This paper examines the role played by the various socio-economic and community level factors to determine the maternal health care utilisation using the data from National Family Health Survey (NFHS) carried out in 1998-99 in India. Our analysis document that autonomy enjoyed by women and...

Using the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar Living-Standard Measurement Survey (1997) this paper examines the factors that have created a wedge in the grade completion levels of the male and the female children. Our study reveals that in the context of educational outcomes, the birth order of the child as...