It has been increasingly recognised that apart from medical inputs, a wide range of socio-economic factors plays an important role in determining health. The objective of the study has been to ascertain the impact of predominantly medical inputs on health status of individuals and simultaneously...

The primary query of this paper centres on the role played by income in determining the extent of fund allocated by Indian states for improvement of health of its population. Drawing data from the fourteen major states of India over a time span of twenty-three financial years (1974-75 to...

This paper tries to investigate educational preferences of parents over their child's education using survey data from two Indian States. Based on the natural ordering of the preferences, an ordered probit framework is being used. We also examine the presence of gender bias in preference pattern...