the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than younger children. In this paper we explore the child … analysis is based on a sample of over 13,000 children (and their parents) drawn from the Health Survey for England. In … evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …

measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net … energy intake for adults, and for children, weight for height and stature. Our finding indicate a clear positive effect of …

food consumption. We also find that the lower tail of the household nutrition distribution drops away very rapidly, so that …

microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is … female household members improves 06 year old girls', though not boys', long-term nutrition as measured by height … girls' food security. That women's access to microcredit improves young girls' long-term nutrition may be explained in part …

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 …

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 …

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 …