This paper investigates if residing in a joint family affects non-farm employment for married women in rural India. Our estimates based on a longitudinal survey of over 27000 women conducted in 2005 and 2012, and using the conditional logistic regression and instrumental variable approach...

We provide the first evidence for India about the implications of three-generational co-residence, which continues to be a dominant family structure, for grandchildren’s school educational investment. Controlling for endogeneity and individual, parental, household and village characteristics,...

We provide the first evidence for India about the implications of three-generational co-residence, which continues to be a dominant family structure, for grandchildren’s school educational investment. Controlling for endogeneity and individual, parental, household and village characteristics,...

The objectives of the study are three-fold: to investigate who are vulnerable to welfare loss from health shocks, what are the household responses to cope with the economic burden of health shocks and if policy responses like state health insurance schemes are effective in reducing the economic...