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The second part of the chapter presents new empirical results using the rural part of the India Human Development Survey (IHDS). 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We document a robust gradient between the early-life mortality environment to which men in India were locally exposed in their district and year of birth and the wages that they earn as adults.","tags":[{"name":"Research","slug":"research"}],"banner":null},{"__typename":"MdxPost","slug":"/research/who-is-the-identifiable-victim-caste-interacts-with-sympathy-in-india/","title":"Who Is the Identifiable Victim? Caste and Charitable Giving in Modern India","date":"Nov 16, 2015","timeToRead":1,"description":"Earlier studies have documented an “identifiable victim effect”: people donate more to help individual people than to groups. Evidence suggests that this is in part due to an emotional reaction to the identified recipients, who generate more sympathy. However, stereotype research has shown that low-ranking groups are often not seen sympathetically; indeed stigmatized groups can be targets of “dehumanized” perception, perceived with disgust. 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This gap can be fully accounted for by differences in open defecation, and especially by open defecation in combination with differences in women’s status and maternal nutrition.","tags":[{"name":"Research","slug":"research"},{"name":" Sanitation","slug":"sanitation"},{"name":" Maternal Health","slug":"maternal-health"}],"banner":null},{"__typename":"MdxPost","slug":"/research/decision-costs-and-price-sensitivity-field-experimental-evidence-from-india/","title":"Decision costs and price sensitivity: Field experimental evidence from India","date":"Jan 01, 2014","timeToRead":1,"description":"Poor people often exhibit puzzlingly high sensitivity to low prices of important consumer health goods. This paper proposes decision costs as one explanation: whether a person buys at a price depends on whether she carefully considers the offer, which itself depends on price. 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It finds that, unlike in other contexts, children who migrate rarely work when they accompany adult migrants.","tags":[{"name":"Research","slug":"research"}],"banner":null},{"__typename":"MdxPost","slug":"/research/the-nutritional-value-of-toilets-how-much-international-variation-in-child-height-can-sanitation-explain/","title":"The nutritional value of toilets: How much international variation in child height can sanitation explain?","date":"Jun 01, 2013","timeToRead":1,"description":"Physical height is an important economic variable reflecting health and human capital. Puzzlingly, however, differences in average height across developing countries are not well explained by differences in wealth.","tags":[{"name":"Research","slug":"research"},{"name":" Sanitation","slug":"sanitation"}],"banner":null},{"__typename":"MdxPost","slug":"/research/repayment-flexibility-can-reduce-financial-stress-a-randomized-control-trial-with-microfinance-clients-in-india/","title":"Repayment Flexibility Can Reduce Financial Stress: A Randomized Control Trial with Microfinance Clients in India","date":"Sep 26, 2012","timeToRead":1,"description":"Financial stress is widely believed to cause health problems. However, policies seeking to relieve financial stress by limiting debt levels of poor households may directly worsen their economic well-being. 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