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social father provides more financial need to the children or the mother with new partners may shift the focus away from the … children. Previous research focused more on such effect on older children or adolescents and ignored the self-selection problem …. We use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), and a sample of younger children. Assuming that …
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Migration affects not only those who migrate, but may also have intergenerational effects on their children. Looking at …
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Most of the impact studies related to mid-day meal scheme have been primary survey based and restricted to particularly locality/region/school but unable to give whole state or India level picture of beneficiaries. In this context the present paper examines the performance of mid-day meal/noon...
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indicate that the difference in bids between a hot state (hunger) and a cold state (satiation) almost doubles when subjects …-predict their hunger and under-predict satiation. …
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The high level of hunger incidence in the country is perhaps one of the most pressing issues that need to be addressed … by our policy makers. Official government statistics and data from self-rated hunger surveys show an increasing trend in … hunger incidence among Filipino households. Data from National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) show that the percentage …
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households, hunger is more acute in annual lean seasons, but food policies typically do not adapt to seasonality. There is …
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For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...
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In recent years, nonprofits have started operating thrift stores to reinvest earnings from the stores’ sales in other programs for the poor. Martha’s Table, a nonprofit in Washington DC, has adopted such a strategy. It operates Martha’s Outfitters, a thrift store which provides clothing at...
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Health Survey food consumption data for over 93,000 children from 21 African countries and Global Land Cover Facility tree … cover data to examine the relationship between tree cover and three key indicators of the nutritional quality of children … relationship between animal source food consumption and tree cover. Overall our findings suggest that children in Africa who live …
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This paper presents the first household-level study to examine the combined impacts of the global food and financial crises on household food security and economic well-being in a developing country. Using longitudinal survey data of 1,800 rural households from 12 districts of Bangladesh over...
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