This paper conducts an econometric analysis of data for a sample of over 4000 children in India, between the ages of 1 …-2 years of age, with a view to studying two aspects of the neglect of children: their likelihood of being immunised against … on whether or not their mothers were literate: there was no gender discrimination between children of literate mothers …

Child labour is in focus for last two decades as it robs children of the chance to enhance human capital. This paper … children in 2003-04, about 13 percent of total, are ‘Nowhere Children’. Incidence of Domestic Duties and Nowhere Children are … drive the children to the labour market. Lack of Educational infrastructure is found to be very important in this respect …

by the children remained the same. In some of the African and Asian countries children are exposed to vulnerable … problems of children in many developing countries. An attempt is also made to highlight what may be termed as tentative … children issues and lessons emerging from Africa and India. …

school of Errabelly village of Karimnager district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The study revealed that children dropped out of …

children by parents, we instrument the family size by sex of the first child. We find a negative relationship between family … size and children's educational attainment, even after controlling for parent's characteristics and birth order of children …. The effects are heterogeneous. The trade-o is more pronounced in rural areas, for low-caste children, for illiterate …