We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million … children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background …

We evaluate the impact of oral polio vaccines on the incidence of disabilities in India, focusing on polio …-related disability. Polio was hyperendemic in India even as recently as the early 1990s but the country was declared wild polio virus …

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, based on the Young Lives … Survey. India has over 70 million children aged 0-5 who are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production … affect cognitive development at all ages, but more so for younger children. Investments also have an impact on health at …

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

order gradient.They interpret this pattern as discrimination against later birth-order children in India. This paper …The poor state of child health in India has generated a number of puzzles that have received attention in the …-life survival advantage in India accruing to later birth orders, which they interpret as the result of a pattern of improving …

India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16.Outcomes are measured as multidimensional … deprivations, utilizing UNICEF's Multidimensional Overlapping Deprivation Analysis index, incorporating deficiencies in children … Lewbel specification and present an array of additional econometric strategies and robustness checks. We find that children …

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 …

measures of health, education, and labor market outcomes. Parents reallocated their investments toward children exposed to an …

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 …