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Allwine, Melanie - 2013

Adopted on September 8 of 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "…[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from...

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Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition : Evidence from a School Lunch Reform

Alex-Petersen, Jesper - 2018

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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Nutrition in Interwar Britain : A Possible Resolution of the Healthy or Hungry 1930s Debate?

Gazeley, Ian - 2018

Twentieth Century. Finally, we examine the impact of state interventions to improve diet and nutrition and conclude that these …

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Behavior Change for Early Childhood Nutrition : Effectiveness of Health Worker Training Depends on Maternal Information in a Randomized Control Trial

Singh, Prakarsh - 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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Protecting Child Nutritional Status in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis : Evidence from Indonesia

Giles, John - 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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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century

Gazeley, Ian - 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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The Effects of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake on Children's Nutrition and Education

Dodlova, Marina; Carias, Michelle; Grimm, Michael - 2023

We assess the impact of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on children s nutrition and education. We combine geo-coded shaking …

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The Economics, Technology and Neuroscience of Human Capability Formation

Heckman, James J. - 2015

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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The Impact of Changing Climate on Children's Nutritional Status in Bangladesh

Hanifi, Syed Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; Quisumbing, … - 2022

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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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006

Liu, Hong - 2012

Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural …

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