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

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 …

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 …

were less likely to have male children. Moreover, children who were in utero during the most severe period of the …

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

improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are … conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition … among children under five in India. The analytic method combines three types of decomposition: Blinder-Oaxaca, non …