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Sarthak Gaurav
Sarthak is Associate Professor in the Economics area at Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. He is an affiliated faculty at the Ashank Desai Centre for Policy Studies and Nutrition Group at CTARA, IIT Bombay. He is also the co-founder of the Behavioural Lab and Geospatial Information Science and Engineering (GISE) Hub at IIT Bombay.
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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.
