Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … studies have demonstrated long-Run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and …

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 …

wide range of outcomes of children of mothers who were exposed in-utero including income, education, employment, and … affected and their children. We find that on average, the famine had negative echo effects on second-generation outcomes. These …

's effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life …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 …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … in later life. We combine self-reported data on hunger experiences from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced …

exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in … population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the … war rations, daily temperature, and warfare deaths. Using difference-in-differences and triple differences research …

Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural …This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989–2006. The results show that on average …

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 …

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 …