The single largest item in the United States foreign aid health budget is antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the …-based triple difference specification, we find that local ART introduction increased the weight of high HIV likelihood adult women … health in sub-Saharan Africa are surmountable …

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 …

was not due to increased health and welfare expenditures, but instead to improved governance. Treatment effects are … comparable to those of conventional child health interventions, though conventional programs are likely infeasible in this …

nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying …

1955. Improvement in nutrition and health may account for as much as 30 percent of the growth in conventionally measured … some improvements in the health, nutritional status, and longevity of the lower classes in England and France between 1830 …, and urbanization of the nineteenth century laid the basis for a remarkable advance in health and nutritional status during …

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 …

undermined nutrition by displacing local food production. Consistent with this hypothesis, a difference-in-differences estimation …

assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely … across the household wealth and consumption distributions. Roughly three-quarters of underweight women and undernourished … higher undernutrition tend to have higher shares of undernourished individuals in non-poor households. The results are …