. Second, I only provide mothers with information without incentivizing the workers. Third, I combine the first two treatments … malnutrition. I find that combining incentives to workers and information to mothers reduces weight-for-age malnutrition by 4.2% in …

experiment, mothers of children (aged 3-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers were provided recipe books to lower … their price per calorie. Theory suggests that if learning takes place among untreated mothers in the same slum cluster, it … knowledge increases among untreated mothers and there is a corresponding reduction in food expenditure. These neighbouring …

Smoking is a leading cause for diseases and death. Information on factors affecting the smoking status is useful for … policies on smoking reduction, especially in developing countries. This paper examines to what extent individuals …’ characteristics can affect the smoking status using a household survey in Vietnam. It is found that gender and age are the most …

Prenatal exposure to smoking and alcohol-use is found to be correlated with various adverse consequences for children … that impact both the mother’s decision to smoke/drink during pregnancy and subsequent child behavior. We investigate the … are used to minimize bias from confounding factors. Our results suggest that the relationship between prenatal smoking and …