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Priya Rampal
Priya Rampal is the quantitative lead at the Oxford Policy Management office in Delhi, working on the monitoring and evaluation of health and nutrition programmes in Rajasthan. Previously, she worked as a Research Fellow at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations (ICRIER), working on issues relating to agriculture sustainability; and as a post-doctoral Fellow at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, where she worked on a project called Leveraging Agriculture for Nutrition in South Asia (LANSA).
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Access to antenatal care and its influence on children’s cognitive development
Research has shown that maternal health affects later-life outcomes of children. Using data from the Young Lives survey in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this article shows that antenatal care has an impact on the cognitive scores of children during mid-childhood, with scores increasing if mothers had between five and eight antenatal visits, with significant variations by caste. Based on this finding, the authors suggest that the government’s current mandate of four minimum antenatal visits is worth rethinking.
