This paper investigates the effect of a food subsidy programme in India on child malnutrition by addressing the …. First, does the food subsidy induce higher expenditures on food? Second, are there gender inequalities in the distribution … respect to the unusually high incidence of malnutrition in India, and they are topical in the context of current and …

This paper studies gender heterogeneity in preferences. We used experimental methods to elicit the subjective discount … discount rate is related to number of children. No gender difference is found for individuals without children. Women …

equilibrium framework for India. Moreover, we clarify some important links between a gender aware informal sector based social …The main purpose of this paper is to look at the incorporation of gender and the informal sector within a general … special case the fixed price multiplier (FPM) models. In particular, economy wide modelling of gender and the informal sector …

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …

recent period. This paper provides estimates of the returns to education in India by gender, age cohort and location (by …There is hardly any estimate of the returns to schooling in India based on a national level representative data for the … secondary level and declines thereafter. There is evidence of substantial gender and rural-urban differences in the returns to …

India. This paper provides evidence on the consequences of the expansion of prenatal ultrasound use on sex-selection. We … exploit state-by-cohort variation in ultrasound use in India as a unique quasi-experiment. We find that sex-selective abortion …-selection in India. …

documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential …

random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed … three children. We do not observe this link among men. Taken together, we find significant gender differences in patience …

growth in school enrolment and completion rates for boys and girls in India, and to explore the extent to which enrolment and … parameters are stable. The analysis nevertheless performs illustrative simulations relevant to the question of whether India will … simulations suggest that India will achieve universal attendance, but that primary school completion rates will not exhibit much …

We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal … potential endogeneity of politician gender and the sample composition of births, we find that a one standard deviation increase …