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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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Twentieth Century. Finally, we examine the impact of state interventions to improve diet and nutrition and conclude that these …
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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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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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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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We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking …
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This paper begins the synthesis of two currently unrelated literatures: the human capital approach to health economics and the economics of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation. A lifecycle investment framework is the foundation for understanding the origins of human inequality and for...
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This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the...
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Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural …
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This paper studies the impact of the 1999 Colombian Earthquake on child nutrition and schooling. The identification … earthquake on child nutrition and schooling in the short-term. Relevantly, amid the aid received by the affected area, the …
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