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

children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous cutoff of …Lack of information about health risks may limit adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper … studies the effect of nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, child health, and cognitive ability of …

We present evidence on the health impacts and mechanisms of a large expansion in non-contributory health insurance in … health services without co-pays. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced child mortality by 7% in poor … municipalities, saving 861 children/year. The decline is driven mainly by deaths due to preventable causes, such as diarrhea and …

Health Surveys, the Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and a database of hospital and clinic lo … South African children and other more advantaged South African children (first difference) born just before and just after … desegregation (second difference). As an alternate differences-in-differences we examine Black South African children born just …

facilities, especially among poor households. To assess the impact of such interventions on child health, we apply propensity … score matching technique on the pooled data from the last five rounds of the National Demographic and Health Survey. We find … safe water and sanitation facilities as measures to improve child health. …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases …

. -- poverty ; income ; inequality ; infant mortality ; India ; economic reform ; state health expenditure ; panel data … health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the … nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid … urbanization taking place throughout the developing world and in targeting resources appropriately to raise population health. We …