steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses … in India of boys performing better. …

weight on cognitive development during childhood in India. We find that a 10 percent increase in birth weight increases … larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the effectiveness of the use of iron and iodine fortified salt in school … lunches to reduce anemia among school children. After four years of treatment, treated children, on average, have higher …

pure altruistic in giving by considering ethnic identity of the recipients from a sample of children in Mumbai, India. The …This dissertation presents three independent essays that elicit social preferences in school children by using a … risk-sharing networks from a sample of school children in Bogota, Colombia. Chapter 3 explores the role of warm-glow and …

pollution generated by coal fueled power units on the anemic status of children and women in India. We show that among very … young children (aged 0–5 years), the number of coal units in the district in the month and year of birth significantly … increasing demand for energy that emerging market economies like India face. …