This paper analyzes adult height gain over more than a half-century in China and identifies the evolving relationship between parental schooling and their children’s height as adults. We find that while mean adult height increased sharply (by 7 cms.) over a 60-year period from the 1930s to the...

Health and nutrition are important as ends in themselves and often are emphasized as critical components of basic needs in developing countries. Cross-country comparisons of standard data suggest that on the average health and nutrition in the developing world falls considerably short of that in...

"While decentralization of education in DMCs has largely been driven by fiscal constraints, it has also been motivated by concerns about the effectiveness of a centralized system in delivering education services. The statistics are revealing: while virtually all DMCs have made impressive gains...

Benefit-cost analysis and other forms of economic evaluation are powerful tools, encouraging the systematic collection and assessment of the evidence needed to support sound policy decisions. In low-and middle-income countries, where resources are very scarce and needs are very great, such...

This paper studies the impact of co-residence with father-in-law and mother-in-law on female labor force participation (FLFP) and autonomy. We study this in the Indian context where patrilocality is common and women have limited mobility and autonomy, especially with a parent-in-law present in...

We use village level data from the 1991 and 2001 Indian Censuses to examine how the availability of health facilities and safe drinking water at the village level affect juvenile sex ratios. In addition to controlling for village fixed effects in our estimating equation of the juvenile sex...