Fertility decline in developing countries may have unexpected demographic consequences. Although lower fertility improves nutrition, health, and human capital investments for surviving children, little is known about the relationship between fertility outcomes and female-male offspring...

This paper examines a Cournot game where capacity constraints are determined in an auction prior to the market interaction. Traditional auctions may not generate a profit-maximizing allocation of capacity in this case, a failure that is traced to the presence of externalities in the valuations....

Auctions can lead to efficient allocations in a wide class of assignment problems. In the presence of externalities, however, efficiency may no longer be guaranteed. This paper develops an ascending price auction based on Ausubel & Milgrom (2002)'s package auction that posesses an efficient Nash...

The reduction of infant and child death is one of the eight millennium development goals (MDGs). In addition, one of the goal one indicators is child malnutrition. A central question for the development community is to understand the factors underlying child health and nutritional status. What...

The severe anti-female bias in natality and child mortality that gives rise to India's missing women has been widely documented and various explanations ranging from agricultural labor demand to dowries have been offered in the literature. In general, the low demand for girls has been...

After controlling for a wide range of determinants of children's participation in work, school, and idleness, we examine whether or not there exists spatial dependence in children's activities in neighboring Indian districts. We find that correlation among neighboring districts' unobservables...