groups - children of uneducated poor women living in rural India. -- fertilizer agrichemicals ; water pollutants ; child … 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 …

the long-term economic benefits of India's national program of childhood vaccinations, known as the Universal Immunization … Programme (UIP). We combine individual-level data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey of India (2011–2012) with …

outcomes of children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous … health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when … parents are informed about the health risk of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than …

-income countries, where this phenomenon is prevalent. Using panel data from India, this paper investigates the effect of early maternal … phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …

This paper revisits the relationship between agricultural productivity shocks and the infant sex ratio in India and … shows that households tend to disproportionately reduce investments (prenatal and postnatal) in their female children. This … India. We then show that a workfare program that decouples both wages and consumption from rainfall attenuates the …

infant health-promoting activities, is India's largest conditional cash transfer program thus far. We approach IGMSY …, but that it will make only a small contribution to redressing India's dismal child-health record. …

Informal eldercare is often supplied by family members, more so in Asia than in the West. Children and their parents as … children of the needy elderly can possibly give to their spouses. A second implication discussed here is that the provision of … Western countries and between two Indian regions. Daughters-in-law in the rural North of India provide more eldercare than …

children in rural India. Using experimental data and regression discontinuity design that exploits the exogenous cutoff of … cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that nutrition information alone, even when parents are informed about the … anemia status of their children, may not promote healthy behavior and factors other than information might constrain …

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 …

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 …