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Aids Treatment and Intrahousehold Resource Allocations : Children's Nutrition and Schooling in Kenya

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 2014

treated persons. We estimate the impact of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition outcomes using longitudinal … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours … improvements. Since the improvements in children's schooling and nutrition at these critical early ages will affect their socio …

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The Income Elasticity for Nutrition : Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya

Almås, Ingvild - 2019

, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred …

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Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment : The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Pregnancy

Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar - 2021

We use the Islamic holy month of Ramadan as a natural experiment in fasting and fetal health. In Michigan births 1989-2006, we find prenatal exposure to Ramadan among Arab mothers results in lower birthweight and reduced gestation length. Exposure to Ramadan in the first month of gestation is...

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The Benefits of Breastfeeding Across the Early Years of Childhood

Belfield, Clive R. - 2010

The choice to breastfeed rather than formula-feed an infant as well as the duration of doing so has been scrutinized in more recent times. Yet, key identification issues remain to be resolved, including the array of possible child development benefits, the optimal intensity of breastfeeding...

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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Jayachandran, Seema - 2010

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their...

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Expanding the School Breakfast Program : Impacts on Children's Consumption, Nutrition and Health

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - 2014

breakfast to all children to be eaten in the classroom during the first few minutes of the school day. We find both policies …

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Does Returning to Work after Childbirth Affect Breastfeeding Practices?

Chatterji, Pinka; Frick, Kevin - 2022

Although the Surgeon General recently highlighted breastfeeding as '......one of the most important contributors to infant health,' few health economics studies based in developed countries have considered breastfeeding as an important health behavior that can be influenced by labor market...

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Expanding Governance as Development : Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines

Berman, Eli - 2016

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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Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success : Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Greve, Jane - 2015

concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …

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Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? Meta-Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness, and Statistical Power

Croke, Kevin - 2016

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