focuses on recently migrant adolescent girls in India’s fast growing urban slum population for whom multiple vulnerabilities … through frontline workers and slum-women’s groups are recommended. On the health access front, in India it is easier for women …

well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism about the economy. In contrast, we find no significant effects on children … have large effects on children over the long run, the lack of shorterterm effects in this setting may reflect the time …

of children and parental subjective well-being using two alternative measures: life satisfaction and a happiness index …. Multiple births are used as the source of exogenous variation to deal with number of children endogeneity. Estimating this … relationship on subgroups of mothers and fathers whose children fall into different age categories, we document that fathers' well …

This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects …

The introduction of prenatal sex-detection technologies in India has led to a phenomenal increase in abortion of female …

-15 years of age using two cohorts of children drawn from the Young Lives Survey for India. The inputs into the production …

scientific underpinnings of disease, the advent of Christianity has long-term health implications for India's children today. …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 …

groups – children of uneducated poor women living in rural India … quality combined with data on the health outcomes of infants and children from the 1992-93, 1998-99, and 2005-06 Demographic … and Health Surveys of India. Because fertilizers are applied at specific times in the growing season, the concentrations …