Based on a randomized evaluation, the paper shows that a household-targeted Philippine cash transfer program … among young nonbeneficiary children by 34 percent (11 percentage points). Price and stunting effects increase in program …-representative household expenditure surveys across the 6-year rollout of the program. Failing to consider such general equilibrium effects may …

This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate … caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … environment -- on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on …

impact of conditional cash transfers on consumption, education, and nutrition outcomes among poor rural families in … shows that the pilot had a significant impact on the incidence of wasting among children who were 10-22 months old when the … program started, reducing the share of children with weight-for-height below two standard deviations from the World Health …

This paper analyzes the level and trends in inequality of opportunity among Egyptian children during the 2000s. The … significant progress in the availability of and access to basic services for children and mothers, in some cases with an overall … persistent and emerging concerns, including postnatal care utilization, nutrition, and schooling. Nutrition indicators have …

the correlation between various measures of household food security and nutritional outcomes of children. The analysis … signals about the nutritional status of children that reside within the household. This result holds even after the analysis …Using nationally representative household survey data from five countries -- three from South Asia (Bangladesh …

Do household consumption-smoothing strategies in poor countries entail significant long-run costs in terms of reduced … recently completed monsoon leads to a 0.15 standard deviation increase in weight-for-age for children ages 0-36 months. This …

social capital via participation in community organizations and their children's nutritional status at 1 and 5 years. Using … year old for those children whose mothers have no formal education. No significant association is found at 5 years of age …

mortality on children?s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual … scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations … differences in anthropometrics between the children who died and those who survived. Differences of this size are not …

exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …

increase in the prevalence of stunting in children who are exposed to highly contaminated drinking water at household point … 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 …