rounds of Demographic and Health Surveys covering the period from 1997 to 2011. …

across the life course, from the preconception health status of the mother through adulthood. This paper lays out a core …

variation in the number of children born to a mother and related it to agricultural labor supply and production outcomes in …

"It has long been known that good nutrition is essential to children's physical and cognitive development, but recent … interventions. Recent studies have shown that undernutrition has a whole range of effects that impede not only children's nutrition …

. Unless well-targeted interventions are made, the most vulnerable—notably poor children and their mothers—will continue to … filariasis. Young children in poor communities are particularly affected: malaria is among the top five causes of death among … under-fives in Sub-Saharan Africa; schistosomiasis among children affects growth, nutritional status, and cognitive …

Organization of the United Nations, the prevalence of underweight in children under the age of five as compiled by the World Health … three dimensions of hunger: insufficient availability of food, shortfalls in the nutritional status of children, and child …