investments in children, starting from encouraging pre-natal and maternal care and early childhood health interventions and … children age 7-15 who are not enrolled in school. Wage labor for 13-15 year olds was reduced by at least one-third. We also …

Cash transfers to families with children are increasingly being restricted to parents who work, while families of non … empirical evidence regarding the effects of in-kind and cash transfer program on the children who are their intended … children. Although the evidence is incomplete, it suggests that in- kind programs have stronger effects on children than cash …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Each year parents transfer a great deal of money to their adult children. While intuition might suggest that these … transfers are altruistic and made out of concern for the well-being of the children, empirical tests of the model have … which parents use current observations on the incomes of their children to update their expectations regarding future …