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 …

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 …

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking … find lasting negative impacts of the earthquake on children's stunting and wasting as well as on school enrolment and … the earthquake's aftermath. This aid mitigated but could not fully prevent the adverse effects on children's health and …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …

Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average … urban children have 0.29 higher height-for-age z-scores and 0.19 greater weight-for-age z-scores than rural children. Urban …

This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake … earthquake on child nutrition and schooling in the short-term. Relevantly, amid the aid received by the affected area, the …

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal … employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …