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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 …
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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
We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of the policy across municipalities and employ a difference- in-differences design to estimate the...
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The impacts of a multifaceted pre-natal intervention on human capital accumulation in early life
Carneiro, Pedro; Kraftman, Lucy; Mason, Giacomo; Moore, … - 2020
We evaluate an intervention targeting early life nutrition and well-being for households in extreme poverty in Northern …
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Job loss and food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - 2021
family has a sufficient amount of food, and deteriorated child nutrition. There is also a differential effect between … vulnerable groups that are most likely to benefit from programs designed to provide sufficient nutrition to the population. …
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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
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 …
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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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The impact on nutrition of the intrahousehold distribution of power
Djebbari, Habiba (contributor) - 2005
The distribution of income within the household is found to matter for the allocation of resources towards nutrition … member who starts earning income, it decreases substantively. -- nutrition ; intrahousehold allocation ; extended families …
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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...
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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...
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From syringes to dishes : improving food security through vaccination
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Fu, Wei; Tekin, Erdal; You, Shijun - 2023
programs, specifically by reducing participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which suggests that …
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