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Impact of Industrialization on Relative Female Survival : Evidence from Trade Policies

Chakraborty, Tanika - 2012

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

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Women at the Top in Developing Countries : Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Sekkat, Khalid - 2015

This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...

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Getting from 'Keep Out' to 'Lean In' : A New Roadmap for Women's Careers

Gersick, Connie - 2014

Forty years ago, a generation of American women embarked on careers they had never anticipated, knowing almost nothing about what their futures would be like. Now these pioneers are nearing retirement. A lifetime of results are in, and debate is raging about women's progress, what they can do,...

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Childhood mortality and economic growth

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006

This paper investigates the extent to which the decline in child mortality over the last three decades can be attributed to economic growth. In doing this, it exploits the considerable variation in growth over this period, across states and over time. The analysis is able to condition upon a...

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Affluence, Obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases in India

Gaiha, Raghav - 2014

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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Equality of What? Evidence from India

Sahn, David E. - 2006

This paper explores univariate health inequality in India using a representative sample of pre-school age children. I … evolution of the nutrition poverty index over time in India. However, I also observe that the level of stunted growth would be …

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The Indian enigma revisited

Grafenstein, Liza von; Klasen, Stephan; Hoddinott, John - 2022

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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Understanding the Effects of Siblings on Child Mortality : Evidence from India

Makepeace, Gerry - 2011

Given the intrinsically sequential nature of child birth, timing of a child's birth has consequences not only for itself, but also for its older and younger siblings. The paper argues that prior and posterior spacing between consecutive siblings are thus important measures of intensity of...

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Why Do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - 2021

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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Maternal cash for better child health? : the impacts of India's IGMSY/PMMVY maternity benefit scheme

Haaren, Paula von; Klonner, Stefan - 2020

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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