specific factors. Using cross-sectional health survey data for India, we employ the propensity score method to match children …In this paper we examine the impacts on child health, using diarrhoea as the health outcome, (amongst children living … belonging to different treatment groups, defined by water types and sanitation facilities, with children in a control group. We …

breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases … suggest that the gender gap in breastfeeding explains 14 percent of excess female child mortality in India, or about 22 …

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro …-level data from India, we find that an increase in female labor supply due to the tariff reductions was associated with a 7 … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less …' grade progression. -- early childhood development ; less developed country ; India ; schooling …