health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

This paper investigates the impact of macroeconomic shocks on infant mortality in India and investigates likely …

India, and find that it exacerbates it. Children born after the reform in families with a first-born daughter are 3 …

fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal …

This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes …

extent of state dependence in India, distinguishing this from family-level risk factors common to siblings. It offers a …

specifications similar to those in the existing literature, this paper finds a similar result for India, which is that state health …