, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …

-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal … age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …

, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …

-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre …-birth health status suggests that the higher incidence of long-term sickness absence among the treated may be explained by the fact … that the reform has facilitated re-entry of a negative health selection into the labor market. …

. This paper argues that growth in India has not substantially improved gender equality because it has not sufficiently … activated either of these mechanisms. I analyze structural changes from 1982/83 to 2011/12 to show that India's high-growth … poverty-might actually have led to greater gender equality in India-by reducing poverty-linked gender discrimination. The …

assess the role of gender equity and uniquely women entrepreneurship in the process of socio-economic development. Implying a …

most large survey-based datasets, time poverty is rarely recognized in policy and practice. Yet income poverty and time … poverty are mutually reinforcing, and they can sap energy and impede effective decision-making, thus perpetuating the state of … poverty. This paper offers a five-step approach to conceptualizing and measuring time poverty, and it compares time poverty …

regards to age, sex and ethnicity. We find that women's mental health is worse than men's along the four metrics we collected …

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …