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Worldwide, extreme poverty is often concentrated in spaces where people and property are not safe enough to sustain effective markets, and where development assistance is dangerous – and might even induce violence. Expanding governance by coercively taking control of territory may enable...
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Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who … and children's food intake, weight, and food security? We use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to … examine these questions for a representative sample of young children and their providers. We find that program eligibility …
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Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However … subsidies for poor households in two provinces of China and find no evidence that the subsidies improved nutrition. In fact, it …
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We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … capital production function that summarizes available nutrition information. We find that although many youths suffer from …
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We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … grains that are cheaper, yet taste-wise, inferior sources of nutrition, but had no effect on calorie, protein and fat intake … nutrition are also negligible. We find evidence that the decline in the price of wheat and rice, changed consumption patterns …
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This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the worldwide long-run rise in obesity and the effects of public interventions on its continued growth. The growth of obesity in a population results from an increase in calorie consumption relative to physical activity. Yet in developed countries,...
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A growing economics literature establishes a causal link between in utero shocks and health and human capital in adulthood. Most studies rely on extreme negative shocks such as famine and pandemics. We are the first to examine the impact of a positive and policy-driven change in economic...
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and 1,460 children younger than 1 year of age were assessed at baseline. The interventions were also complemented with … training, supervision and coaching of FAMI program facilitators. We assessed program effects on children's nutritional status … reduction of 5.8 percentage points in the fraction of children whose height-for-age is below -1 standard deviation. We do not …
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This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each U.S. county, we find that pregnancies exposed to the FSP...
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largest for first born children. We also find that women on WIC are more likely to be diagnosed with chronic conditions, and …
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