To understand the household decision-making process regarding food expenditures for children in poor households in …) allocated money between themselves and nutritious meals for one of their children. First, we find strong empirical support for … children’s meals than men. Third, the spouses’ respective bargaining positions derived from consumption patterns strongly …

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer … breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children … breastfeeding on children’s cognitive development but no effects on health or non-cognitive development during the period of …

sample of children 0–59 months old in Bolivia and a rich set of child health and development outcomes including measures from … (SD) in height for age and weight for age z-scores respectively, between children in the top and bottom quintile of the … expenditure distribution. Children in the top quintile are less likely to have iron deficiency (11 pp) and anemia (17 pp), whereas …