Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper … of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …

find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

uses a sample of children under 48 months in rural areas of India from the Third Round of District Level Household Survey … improved sanitation and fixed-point defecation. There is a 47 percent reduction in diarrhea prevalence between children living … in a household without access to improved sanitation in a village without coverage of improved sanitation and children …

among young children. In 1999, India launched the Total Sanitation Campaign with the goal of achieving universal toilet … coverage in rural India by 2012. This paper reports on a cluster-randomized, controlled trial that was conducted in 80 rural … outcomes. The study analyzed a random sample of 3,039 households and 5,206 children under five years of age. Field staff …

India's Total Sanitation Campaign, a large government program that encouraged local governments to build and promote use of …

Open defecation is exceptionally widespread in India, a county with puzzlingly high rates of child stunting. This paper … Maharashtra. The program caused a large but plausible average increase in child height (95 percent confidence interval [0.04 to 0 … effect even on children in households that did not adopt latrines. Unusually, surveyors also collected data in districts …

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective … 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 …

Levels of child malnutrition in India fell only slowly during the 1990s, despite significant economic growth and large … feeding for malnourished children. To unravel this puzzle, the authors assess the program's placement and its outcomes using … nearly half of India's population - have the lowest program coverage and the lowest budgetary allocations from the central …

The effects of public investments aimed at directly improving children's health are theoretically ambiguous, since the … influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …, they find that the prevalence and duration of diarrhea among children under five are significantly less on average for …