This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main … establishing countries were engaged in during India's colonial history. The results are robust to a series of checks for instrument … scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …

Leveraging close elections to generate quasi-random variation in the religious identity of state legislators in India …

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence … health, indeed, enough to reverse the SES gradient that is commonly observed. -- Religion ; caste ; gender ; child survival …