levels of illegal trafficking of girls and abnormal child sex ratios in favor of boys. In this paper we examine if a skewed … states from 1980-2011, we find that 100 unit increase in child sex ratio is associated with 0.635% increase in illegal … state. We find that association between child sex ratio and illegal trafficking of girls is stronger and larger in magnitude …

. We incorporate spatial peer interaction, defined as a child's nearest geographical neighbors, into a production function … of child cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh, India. Our peer group definition takes the form of networks, whose … strongly positively associated with a child's cognitive skill formation. Further, we find that the presence of peer groups …

show that if government spending is a substitute for parental spending and parent time with the child is weakly … complementary to spending on the child, then children's human capital decreases as they become left-behind by migrant parents. This … unintended consequence of separating children from parents due to endogenous migration effects, thereby reducing child human …