that measurement issues related to the way undernourishment and childhood undernutrition is measured might play a …This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …

The dissolution of the Soviet Union and 1992-96 Tajik civil war resulted in huge human and economic losses …

malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy …

conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition …-linear, and unconditional quantile. Child undernutrition is measured by z-scores for height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-height (WHZ … improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are …

's high prevalence of maternal undernutrition and its correlation with age and childbearing can explain this pattern. We find …

We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the … indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life …

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

We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … Origin Hypothesis. We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and … measures of mental acuity. Our findings on the health impacts of fetal malnutrition on middle-age survivors suggest that it …

This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …