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Behavior change for early childhood nutrition : effectiveness of health worker training depends on maternal information in a randomized control trial
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
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 … providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are …
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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … grandchildren of those exposed to the famine at ages 8-12. Our findings support and extend the evidence so far. Among the third … generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was …
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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732355
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Are vegetable seed oils fueling the obesity epidemic?
Ransom, Tyler - 2024
biochemical processes. I document supporting evidence of these mechanisms in economics research and population health trends. I …
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Impact of caregiver incentives on child health : evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in Indi
Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016
This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health … study arms receive nutrition information. We find that performance pay reduces the prevalence of underweight by about 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517727
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Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis : evidence from Indonesia
Giles, John; Satriawan, Elan - 2014
In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program...
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Long-term effects of childhood nutrition : evidence from a school lunch reform
Alex-Petersen, Jesper; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2017
-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …
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Early-life famine exposure, hunger recall and later-life health
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021
's effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life … causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that … can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a non-linear relationship between mortality rates, a commonly used famine …
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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India
Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021
experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition …Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide …
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Long-run longevity effects of a nutritional shock early in life : the Dutch potato famine of 1846 - 1847
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor);  … - 2007
Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … at old ages for men. -- Nutrition in early life ; famine ; longevity ; natural experiments ; survival analysis … studies have demonstrated long-run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and …
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