addition to the replacement effects of higher fertility following a disaster that caused high mortality, a positive fertility … response may be induced as children can be used to supplement household income. This paper analyzes three high mortality … positive fertility response to exposure to these large-scale natural disasters in addition to the response to child mortality …

-income countries. Rigorous studies on the effectiveness of ECD-related programs for improving children's development in various … longitudinal data collected over three years on a cohort of 6,693 children age 0-4 years at baseline in two "treatment" regions and …, household, and child level and unobserved fixed characteristics, with differential impacts by age of children and duration of …

young children. A combination of income growth and nutrition interventions are therefore suggested to adequately tackle this …