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. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental …. Supermarkets do not seem to be a driver of childhood obesity in Kenya. The positive effects of supermarkets on child nutrition are … to be a major nutrition problem in developing countries that is declining more slowly than child underweight …
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treated persons. We estimate the impact of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition outcomes using longitudinal … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours … improvements. Since the improvements in children's schooling and nutrition at these critical early ages will affect their socio …
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Existing program evaluation methods such as difference‐in‐difference estimators or propensity score matching are designed to examine the average impact of a program. By design they can only examine changes in a particular summary statistic of an outcome indicator, most commonly the mean or...
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of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition. They find that children's weekly hours of school attendance …'s short-term nutritional status also improves dramatically. Since the improvements in children's schooling and nutrition at … HIV/AIDS, yet little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children whose parents receive …
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treatment to adults and the schooling and nutrition outcomes of children in their households. Weekly hours of school attendance … public resources from around the world, but little is known about this intervention's impact on the welfare of children in … treated persons' households. Using longitudinal survey data from Kenya, we examine the relationship between the provision of …
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treated persons. We estimate the impact of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition outcomes using longitudinal … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours … improvements. Since the improvements in children's schooling and nutrition at these critical early ages will affect their socio …
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This thesis addresses 3 different aspects of food and poverty related problems in developing countries. The first essay presents a new operational concept of transaction costs that firstly allows assessing the magnitude and secondly recognizing the non homogeneity of food products. This is...
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facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains … scarce. In this study we analyze whether mobile phones improve dietary quality of pastoralists in Northern Kenya. We use six …
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