This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … interregional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests that …

adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating … behaviour of adult children and the past parental death from cardiovascular disease (CVD). It uses parental CVD death as an … adverse health signal which may cause a healthy eating compensatory response in adult children. This response is due to …

. This involves a method for embodying the ideal of children having priority on social resources into a particular set of …

that the presence of children has on the time devoted to elder care. We combine the approach of the Social Cognitive Theory …", i.e, the presence of children, while parents are engaged in elder care activities, increases by 11.63% the time devoted … per day when children are present during adult care activities. …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …