South Asia has long been synonymous with persistent and unusually high rates of child undernutrition—the so … rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys covering the period from 1997 to 2011. …

"Child labor is widespread in developing countries, but its causes are debatable. Poverty is considered the primary … quality, and labor market opportunities play equal or even greater roles in the decision to have children work. This study … evidence from Nepal, Peru, and Zimbabwe. We find that while poverty drives child work and schooling in rural areas, it does not …

"Child labor is widespread in developing countries, but its causes are debatable. Poverty is considered the primary … quality, and labor market opportunities play equal or even greater roles in the decision to have children work. This study … evidence from Nepal, Peru, and Zimbabwe. We find that while poverty drives child work and schooling in rural areas, it does not …

"Studies have shown that malnourished children in developing countries score lower on tests of cognitive function and …

"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 …

€™s Demographic Health Surveys. To do so, the authors first construct and test basic models of the intermediate determinants of child …

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 …