This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects …

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. …

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in … relationship between income and child development in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Treated mothers and children experienced large … explanatory factor for the poor translation of increases in income into child growth in India …

nutritional status of infants and young children from adverse effects of the crisis. The use of heterogeneity in program exposure … all targeted children experienced homogenous exposure to the program, and facilitates identification in a setting in which … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of children 12 to 24 months of age at the time of the survey in …

exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …