Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Valente, Christine; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
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 …