EU member-countries in 1991-2000. It examines the increase in the health-spending component of welfare spending in 1991 …

In India, 52 98 million people live in urban slums, and 59% of slums are "non-notified" or lack legal recognition by … services, thereby increasing vulnerability to poor health outcomes. To quantify deprivation for each slum, we construct a basic … services deprivation score (BSDS), which includes variables that affect health, such as access to piped water, latrines, solid …

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 …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … villages by health workers by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for the two groups in state … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

Drug Regulation has been the focus of several recent policy reform efforts in India, starting with the Mashelkar …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … villages by health workers by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for the two groups in state … legislative assemblies mandated by the Constitution of India. Using data from state and village level surveys on fifteen major …

This paper studies the health effects of one of the world's largest demand-side financial incentive programes - India … unintended consequences. The financial incentive program was associated with a substitution away from private health providers … for financial incentives to have unanticipated health effects, which may, in the case of fertility, directly undermine the …

Human right agencies across the globe in collaboration with scientists have advocated against the negative health … possible health risks in underage working children. The paper focuses special attention to developing countries with the …

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 …