Using the fourth round of the Indian National Family Health Survey (NFHS4), and subsequently replicating our results using the fifth round (NFHS-5), we document differential child physical growth patterns across caste groups in India, demonstrating that lower caste children are born shorter and...

Despite rising per capita income, improvements in female educational attainment, and declining fertility, the reported overall female labor force participation rate in India declined from 35% in 1999 to 27% in 2012. This paper examines the association between married men’s earnings and the...