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Rossella Calvi
Rossella Calvi is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Rice University, Houston. She joined Rice in 2016 after receiving her Ph.D. from Boston College. Her areas of expertise are development economics and the economics of the family and gender. Her research focuses on issues related to gender inequality, poverty, health and education in developing countries. Some of her recent work looks at intra-household resource allocation in India and its effects on women’s health and poverty. She is also interested in economic history and studies the role that historical institutions play in determining contemporary outcomes.
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The long-term consequences of medical missions in colonial India
Health outcomes vary substantially across India. Is this variation exclusively determined by present-day factors, or can it be traced back to historical events? This article studies the long-term consequences of the Protestant medical missionary enterprise that spread throughout the country in the 19th century. It finds a robust positive association between proximity to a medical mission and current individuals’ health outcomes.
