This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health … several gender-based or gender-related experiments -- a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …

of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

This paper estimates two sources of benefits related to sanitation infrastructure access on early childhood health: a … uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey …

among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … coverage in rural India by 2012. This paper reports on a cluster-randomized, controlled trial that was conducted in 80 rural … villages in Madhya Pradesh to measure the effect of the program on toilet access, sanitation behavior, and child health …

Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries … India's Total Sanitation Campaign, a large government program that encouraged local governments to build and promote use of …

health. Obtaining empirical estimates of the benefits generated by the first is straightforward, not so those generated by … in connection with the all-India rural roads program Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, using an overlapping generations … and mortality. Based on survey evidence from upland Orissa in India and Bangladesh, as well as elements of more usual …

This paper analyzes the effects of all-weather rural roads on households' net output prices, education and health in a … poor, drought-prone region of India. Of 30 villages originally surveyed in 2001-02, when two had such roads, a further nine … hospital than in the nearest primary health clinic; and (iv) the respondents ranked the resulting benefits in the domains of …

This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question ? how do large … changed women?s habitus and broke down normative restrictions constitutive of the symbolic boundary of gender …

, and birth spacing, using data on Hindu women from India's National Family and Health Surveys. Women with eight or more …

: urbanization, agglomeration benefits, gender and informality. Focusing on the important policy objective of new enterprise creation … in the informal sector, it asks and answers four specific questions on the impact of urbanization and gender. It finds … access, on female owned enterprise creation in the informal sector ; and (iv) gender specific market access to inputs matters …