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From better schools to better nourishment : evidence from a school-building program in India

Chatterjee, Somdeep - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/2, pp. 1-13

This is a short paper analyzing the potential effects of a targeted school-building program on health indicators. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) program in India intended to build residential schools for girls from historically disadvantaged sections of the society, providing a...

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(En-)"lightening" children : assessing the impacts of access to electricity on learning achievement levels

Chatterjee, Somdeep; Hastawala, Shiv; Kamal, Jai - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 27 (2023) 4, pp. 2489-2517

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Maternal health, children education and women empowerment : quasi-experimental evidence from India

Chatterjee, Somdeep; Poddar, Prashant - 2019

The empirical evidence on the inter-generational effects of maternal health interventions is inconclusive, particularly the impact on cognitive ability of children. In this paper, we study one such popular policy from India, viz, the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) which is a agship health and safe...

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The effect of education on the timing of marriage and first conception in Pakistan

Gangadharan, Lata; Maitra, Pushkar - 2000

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Two aspects of fertility behaviour in South Africa

Gangadharan, Lata; Maitra, Pushkar - 1999

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Two aspects of fertility behaviour in South Africa

Gangadharan, Lata; Maitra, Pushkar - 1999

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The effect of education on the timing of marriage and first birth in Pakistan

Gangadharan, Lata; Maitra, Pushkar - In: Journal of quantitative economics : official journal of … 1 (2003) 1, pp. 114-133

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Two aspects of fertility behavior in South Africa

Gangadharan, Lata; Maitra, Pushkar - In: Economic development and cultural change 50 (2001) 1, pp. 183-200

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Parental education and child health : evidence from China

Maitra, Pushkar; Peng, Xiujian; Zhuang, Yaer - 2003

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The link between infant mortality and child nutrition in India : is there any evidence of a gender bias?

Maitra, Pushkar; Rammohan, Anu - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 16 (2011) 1, pp. 81-110

In this paper, using the 1998-1999 National Family Health Survey data-set from India, we study whether there are gender differentials in infant mortality and child nutrition. Our analysis finds no evidence of gender differentials in survival probability. However, conditional upon surviving the...

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