in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers … to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments based on the weight‐for‐age nutritional status of children in their … care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only their standard salary. Mothers of children in all three …

animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … studies have demonstrated long-run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and … at old ages for men. -- Nutrition in early life ; famine ; longevity ; natural experiments ; survival analysis …

concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …

exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …

providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are … supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise mothers on health and nutrition for their child. Our one-day caregiver … training covered basic health and nutrition facts with advice on how to communicate with mothers for behavior change at home …

. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living … stunting's evolution among South African children and adolescents aged 0–19, with particular attention to how the prevalence of … stunting differs between urban (14.9%) and rural (19.6%) areas and how the drivers of poor nutrition vary spatially. The …

relationship between early undernutrition and four foundational cognitive skills, the first two of which measure executive …

that shorter children experienced greater mortality and that this selection offset stunting. We disentangle stunting and … selection effects of the Chinese famine, using the height of the children of the famine cohort. We find significant stunting of …

of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata from a unique survey from 1930s Britain to … analyze the relationship between the standardized heights of children and the number of children in the family. Our results … suggest that heights are influenced positively by family income per capita and negatively by the number of children or the …