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Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women's Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India
Anukriti, S; Herrera-Almanza, Catalina; Karra, Mahesh - 2022
networks and improve well-being. We examine family planning access for women in India, who tend to be socially isolated and for …
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Childhood Vaccinations and Demographic Transition: Long-Term Evidence from India
Nandi, Arindam; Summan, Amit; Ngô, D. Thoai; Bloom, … - 2022
remain untested. In this study, we examine the demographic effects of India's national childhood vaccination program (the … preference data of 625,000 adult women from the National Family Health Survey of India 2015–2016. We include women who were born …
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Power to choose? Examining the link between contraceptive use and domestic violence
Ojha, Manini; Babbar, Karan - 2023
data for India, we use an instrumental variable approach to estimate our causal effects. Using exogenous variation in the …
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The Indian enigma revisited
von Grafenstein, Liza; 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374273
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The fertility-sex ratio trade-off : unintended consequences of financial incentives
Anukriti, S - 2014
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258158
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Human capital development and parental investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Nix, Emily - 2015
-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471856
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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio - 2017
We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952337
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Early life access to polio vaccines and declining disability rates in India
Ambade, Mayanka; Menon, Nidhiya; Subramanian, S. V. - 2022
We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio …-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus …
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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India
Attanasio, Orazio - 2019
We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891217
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Birth Weight and Cognitive Development during Childhood : Evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh - 2019
weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases …
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