Reducing child malnutrition is a key goal of most developing countries. To combat child malnutrition with the right set of interventions, policymakers need to have a better understanding of its economic, social and policy determinants. While there is a large literature that investigates the...

Reducing child malnutrition is a key goal of most developing countries. To combat child malnutrition with the right set of interventions, policymakers need to have a better understanding of its economic, social and policy determinants. While there is a large literature that investigates the...

Untersuchungen des Arbeitsmarktes und des Heiratsmarktes in der Dritten Welt zeigen im allgemeinen eine hohe Korrelation zwischen Einkommen und Schulbildung bzw. ähnlicher Schulbildung der Frau verglichen mit dem Mann. Dennoch gibt es in beiden Fällen auch gravierende Abweichungen, die in...

In this study we use data from rural India to examine the impact of the birth of a boy relative to the birth of a girl (i.e., the "gender shock") on the savings, consumption and income of rural Indian households. We find that the gender shock reduces savings for medium and large farm households,...