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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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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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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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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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How early nutrition and foundational cognitive skills interconnect? : evidence from two developing countries
Sanchez, Alan; Favara, Marta; Sheridan, Margaret; … - 2022
relationship between early undernutrition and four foundational cognitive skills, the first two of which measure executive …
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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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Early-life famine exposure, hunger recall and later-life health
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021
We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the 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...
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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
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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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
At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the...
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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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