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in height-for-age of young children exposed during their first years of life, compared with a control group of households … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …
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This paper examines how parents' early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children's health status … treatment. The findings show that children who were born to parents who were living closer to refugee camps during their early …
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together account for 90 percent of the world's stunted children. The first calculation asks how much lower a country's per …
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This paper examines the relationship between maternal exposure to violence during pregnancy and newborn birthweight. The paper exploits variation in the timing of exposure and in the geographic location of expectant mothers across Colombian municipalities. Exposure to violence in early pregnancy...
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her child's health. Mothers exposed to conflict during their childhood have more children and live in less wealthy … households, likely reducing their ability to invest during their children's critical period of physical development. The finding … points to a potential trade-off between the quantity and quality of children. The paper uses information on monthly conflict …
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cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …
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Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper …
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outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation on child growth. However, limited … water contaminated with E. coli could affect the nutritional status of children through various possible biological pathways … uptake and absorption. This study explores the relationship between contaminated water and stunting prevalence among children …
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significant only for children living in disadvantaged households. The presence of a partner worsens the effect of maternal …
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Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
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