Urban population in India has been rising rapidly as millions of migrants are moving to urban areas aspiring for higher … largest metro cities in India through primary surveys. We find certain characteristics, such as large average household size … drinking water. Moreover, there exists major cross-city differences in adult literacy rates across gender, consumption pattern …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to isolate causal effects. We find significantly higher growth in … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …

implications because it suggests that India's problem of "missing women" may be concentrated in particular groups. The authors …The authors use recent data from the 2006 National Family Health Survey of India to explore the relationship between … conclude that religion and caste play a key role in determining the demographic characteristics of India …

apply a new "flow" measure of "missing women" to estimate the extent of gender bias in mortality in developing countries … among children in India, that gender bias in mortality is larger in Sub-Saharan Africa than in China and India, and that … of missing women are confirmed. The one finding that remains and deserves further attention is some evidence of gender …