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Does Livestock Ownership Affect Animal Source Foods Consumption and Child Nutritional Status? Evidence from Rural Uganda
Azzarri, Carlo - 2020
Uganda. The results are suggestive that promoting (small) livestock ownership has the potential to affect human nutrition in …
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Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children
Alderman, Harold - 2017
Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975695
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Economic Growth, Convergence, and World Food Demand and Supply
Fukase, Emiko - 2017
In projecting global food demand to 2050, much attention has been given to rising demand due to the projected population increase from the current 7.4 billion to more than 9 billion. An increasingly important source of the increase in food demand is per capita demand growth induced by rising...
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Decomposing Response Errors in Food Consumption Measurement : Implications for Survey Design from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Friedman, Jed - 2017
There is wide variation in how consumption is measured in household surveys both across countries and over time. This variation may confound welfare comparisons in part because these alternative survey designs produce consumption estimates that are differentially influenced by contrasting types...
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Disquiet on the Weather Front : The Welfare Impacts of Climatic Variability in the Rural Philippines
Safir, Abla - 2017
Three recent rounds (2003, 2006, and 2009) of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey are matched to rainfall data from 43 rainfall stations in the Philippines to quantify the extent to which unusual weather has any negative effects on the consumption of Filipino households. It is found that...
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The Impact of Household Food Consumption Data Collection Methods on Poverty and Inequality Measures in Niger
Backiny-Yetna, Prospere - 2020
This paper assesses the impact of three methodologies of food data collection on the welfare distribution, and poverty and inequality measures in Niger. The first methodology is a 7-day recall period, the second one is a usual month, and the third one is a 7-day diary. The paper finds that there...
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The Nutrition Sensitivity of Food and Agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe Jr Fadullon - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia … transfer programs are aimed at addressing this, most are too small to have a marked effect in protecting or promoting nutrition …. Several supply-side food and agricultural interventions suggest promise in improving nutrition, although their effects have …
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Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Nonbeneficiary Children
Filmer, Deon - 2019
Based on a randomized evaluation, the paper shows that a household-targeted Philippine cash transfer program significantly raised the local price of key foods relevant for child nutritional status. This shift in prices increased stunting among young nonbeneficiary children by 34 percent (11...
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The Effect of Height on Earnings : Is Stature Just a Proxy for Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2017
This study investigates the degree to which the association of height and earnings in Pakistan is independent of other cognitive and socioemotional skills. While taller workers are regularly observed to earn more, they commonly have higher cognitive ability. Thus, there is debate concerning the...
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Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming
Ozier, Owen - 2019
In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
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