This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … shows that households tend to disproportionately reduce investments (prenatal and postnatal) in their female children. This … India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …

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. …

2009 cross-sectional dataset from Andhra Pradesh, India, to understand the aforementioned relationship. Results: The … both short-run household expenditure and long-run household wealth on child stunting, with the latter having a larger … lower child health inducing higher earnings. While higher average community education improved child health, increased …

children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous cutoff of … cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that nutrition information alone, even when parents are informed about the … anemia status of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than information might constrain …