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India

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Reproductive burden and women’s employment in India

January 30, 2023 Chhavi Tiwari and Srinivas Goli
Asia, Gender issues, India, woman, Work

Low and declining female labour force participation in India has been a puzzle and a key policy question in the recent past. Chhavi Tiwari and Srinivas Goli argue that it … Read more

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Labour force participation among older adults in India

January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 Aparajita Chattopadhyay and David E. Bloom
India, Old age, population ageing, Work

India’s economic sector faces a reckoning with its ageing population. Aparajita Chattopadhyay and David E. Bloom‘s analysis, based on the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI), indicates that health is … Read more

Health and mortality

Child survival in India: Hindus now catching up with Muslims

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Dibyasree Ganguly and Srinivas Goli
Asia, child mortality, Children, India

Until recently, child survival in India was lower among Muslims than among Hindus, despite the lower average socio-economic status of the former. Dibyasree Ganguly and Srinivas Goli note that this … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Sex-selective abortion in India: an ongoing problem

August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 Claus C. Pörtner
Asia, Children, Family, Fertility, India, sex-selection

In India, the percentage of male births has increased since the mid-1980s. Claus Pörtner ties the continuously growing use of prenatal sex selection to India’s falling fertility among highly-educated women. … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Increasing childlessness driven by higher female education in India

May 23, 2022May 23, 2022 Koyel Sarkar and Thomas Baudin
Children, Family, Fertility, India

While still low, childlessness in India is on the rise. Trends in childlessness are linked to the opposing factors of poverty and opportunity-driven causes of childlessness, which Koyel Sarkar and … Read more

Education, work, economy (socio-economic differences)

Educating children in India may help keep their parents healthy

October 25, 2021 Berenike Thoma and Jan-Walter De Neve
Asia, Children, Education, Health, India, Old age

A strong positive association exists between children’s education and parental health in India. Berenike Thoma and Jan-Walter De Neve explain that this positive relationship persists when controlling for a wide … Read more

Environment and development

Demography and development in the maze of Indian districts

March 10, 2021January 7, 2020 Sanjay K. Mohanty, Udaya S. Mishra, Rajesh K. Chauhan and Sayantani Chatterjee
Asia, Children, India, population, population growth

A striking contrast in demographic and development indicators emerges from a recent analysis of the 640 districts of India, which Sanjay K. Mohanty, Udaya S. Mishra, Rajesh K. Chauhan and … Read more

Fertility and reproduction

Where, in India, is hospital birth safer for babies than home birth?

March 10, 2021April 29, 2019 Diane Coffey
Asia, Fertility, Gender issues, Health, India

Sustainable Development Goal 3 aims to reduce global neonatal mortality (NNM) to 12 deaths per 1,000 births by 2030. Reducing NNM in India is critical to this goal because it … Read more

Gender issues

Counting excess under-5 female mortality in Indian districts

March 10, 2021November 5, 2018 Christophe Z Guilmoto and Nandita Saikia
Asia, Children, Gender issues, India, Mortality

Excess female mortality resulting from gender discrimination in the postnatal period was still common in India at the beginning of the century. Yet, little attention has been paid so far … Read more

Health and mortality

Neonatal mortality trend in Indian states, 1981-2011

March 4, 2021September 26, 2016 Nandita Saikia, Vladimir M. Shkolnikov, Domantas Jasilionis and Chandra Sekhar
Asia, Children, India, Mortality

According to the most recent estimates, under-five mortality¹ in India is decreasing, but the annual number of under-five deaths is still as high as 1.2 million, the largest in the … Read more

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