female household members improves 0-6 year old girls', though not boys', long-term nutrition as measured by height …'s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to … microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is …

hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural …

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 … 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household …-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 … strategy combines household survey data with event data on the timing and location of the earthquake, exploiting the exogenous … exposure of children to the shock. The paper uniquely identifies both the short- and medium-term impacts of the earthquake …