health and education, including: increased children's height; decreased risky behaviors among adolescents, including the … intergenerational mobility in height and years of schooling. The findings show that, on average, male offspring are 2.8 centimeters …. The study finds that a 1 percent increase in height is associated with a 10.7 and 8.8 percent increases in hourly wages …

; dietary preferences related to religion and ethnicity; nutrition education; and administration of public health and nutrition …Using recent Demographic Health Survey data for Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and … cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …

contamination in drinking water is measured at household and source points. Stunting is measured using height-for-age z-scores for … the World Health Organization reference population. The results of multiple probit regression models indicate a 6 percent …

Rising obesity rates are one of the most challenging public health issues in many emerging economies. The extent to … being the main driver. This highlights the importance of considering the food environment to inform public health policies …

In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and …

effects on years of schooling, cognitive skills, and height, parsing out the relative contribution of each set of returns to …. The second calculation estimates the economic value and the costs associated with scaling up a package of nutrition … 10 nutrition interventions for which data are available on the effects and costs. The estimated rate-of-return from …

This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Indonesia. It presents data on …. That is, the profile takes data on population as well as on reproductive and child health and nutrition from tables … presented in the Indonesia version of socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population and presents them in a …

This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Guatemala. It presents data on …. That is, the profile takes data on population as well as on reproductive and child health and nutrition from tables … presented in the Guatemala version of socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population and presents them in a …

This paper focuses on the inequalities in health, nutrition, and population in Bolivia. It presents data on …. That is, the profile takes data on population as well as on reproductive and child health and nutrition from tables … presented in the Guatemala version of socio-economic differences in health, nutrition, and population and presents them in a …