"Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms … of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on early childhood nut ition on education in developing countries by …

Though parental education is widely perceived to be an important determinant of child nutrition outcomes, there remain … significant uncertainties about whether maternal or paternal education matters most, whether there are increasing or decreasing … returns to parental education, and whether these returns are robust given that recent gains in enrollment have not always …