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...

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...

According to the authors, population growth and economic development is a centuries-old theme that regained prominence in the 1960s. They take another look at this old issue in the context of recent developments and with the benefit of the increasing stock of knowledge on the subject. After...

While decentralization of schooling in Asian developing countries has largely been driven by fiscal constraints, it has also been motivated by concerns about the effectiveness of a centralized system in delivering schooling services. The statistics are revealing about some of these concerns:...