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lunches to reduce anemia among school children. After four years of treatment, treated children, on average, have higher …
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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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This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on food insecurity in the United States, using data from the Household Pulse Survey. Our primary research design exploits variation in vaccine eligibility across states over time as an instrumental variable to address the endogeneity of...
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providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are …
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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 …
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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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Nigeria. The intervention leads to large and sustained improvements in children's anthropometric and health outcomes … children, and generate higher household earnings streams long after the cash transfers expire. …
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and time invested in homeschooling of children, suggesting that improvement in mental health is an important step toward …
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province, Khatlon. Educational interactions between adults and children under age six are much more frequent. The continued …
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food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire … and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also … sizeable for middle-income children. …
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