Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory …

, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births globally (WHO, 2014). Using panel and sibling data from India, this paper …

in children's nutritional outcomes. Using data from the Third Round of the National Family Health Survey for India … of women's empowerment in improving children's nutrition during the critical first two years of life, a recognized …

experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition … intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the effectiveness of the use of iron and iodine fortified salt in school …

studies the effect of a nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, hemoglobin levels, and cognitive … 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 …

India, including 53,030 mothers and 113,708 children, collected in 2015-16. Outcomes are measured as multidimensional …'s access to water, sanitation, housing, healthcare, nutrition, education and information. We identify causal impacts using a …

We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings …

-10, we investigate the relationship between social identity, specifically caste identity in India, and perceptions of self …, and how institutional change can influence it. Our main finding is that caste identity in contemporary India does shape …

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results … inter-religion earnings differences to a great extent. -- inequality ; caste ; religion ; India …