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Succession Act Amendment (HSAA), which granted inheritance rights to unmarried women in India, on child health. Our findings …
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undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the …
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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. …
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received. Two empirical applications of the index are presented with cross-sectional survey data from India and Kenya …
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There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines …
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Recent high rates of economic growth in India have been accompanied by major dietary transitions. Using a nationwide … household survey, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper estimates the impact of such transitions on the incidence of … non communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, coronary heart disease and cancer in India. The estimated deaths from …
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There has been a significant decline in fertility in many parts of India since the early 1980s. This paper reexamines …
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more clearly relevant. Using state‐level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …
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newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a …
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The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...
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