, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labor on socio-economic outcomes such as education, wages, and health … worked as children. We find no significant effects on health. Over a longer horizon, we estimate that from age 30 onward the …

effectiveness. In this paper, we examine the consequences of India's landmark legislation against child labor, the Child Labor …

decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

Higher wages are generally thought to increase human capital production especially in the developing world. We show …

may attend less school. Exploiting early life rainfall shocks in India as a source of exogenous variation in early life …

work in which children participate, focusing on that work's impact on schooling, health, as well as externalities …

Self-control problems constitute a potential explanation for the under-investment in preventive health care observed in … increasing preventive doctor visits by hypertensive patients in rural India. We document varying levels of takeup of the … different commitment contracts, but find no effects on actual doctor visits or individual health outcomes. Thus, a substantial …

and health technologies in real-world settings where behavior may temper impacts, and to test them over a long enough …It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …