The study aimed at identifying social and biomedical risk factors attributable to perinatal and neonatal mortality (PN …

growth such as income, education, woman worker labour force participation, land ownership, family status, caste, mortality … India - based on two household surveys, examines socio-economic and demographic aspects influencing fertility and population …

The level of infant and under-five mortality is high among scheduled castes (SCs) and scheduled tribes (STs) in India …. This study intends to quantify the contribution of education in explaining the gap in infant and under-five mortality … between SCs/STs and non-SC/ST population in India with a special focus on the effect of maternal education. We used data from …

municipalities between 2002 and 2010. Our intent-to-treat estimates show that SP reduced infant mortality by 10% in poor … municipalities. We are unable to detect program impacts on mortality for children ages 1-4, adults or elderly. The decline in infant … mortality is driven by reductions in deaths due to perinatal conditions, congenital malformations, diarrhea and respiratory …