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The Impact of Expanding Access to Early Childhood Services in Rural Indonesia : Evidence from Two Cohorts of Children
Brinkman, Sally - 2017
rural areas of Indonesia on two cohorts of children. One cohort was children aged 4 at the start of the project and was … immediately eligible for project-provided services when they began operation in 2009. The other cohort was children aged 1 at the … across children from different backgrounds, the impact on child outcomes is larger for children from more disadvantaged …
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Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Sanitation on Childhood Cognitive Skills : Evidence from India's Total Sanitation Campaign
Spears, Dean - 2017
Early life health and net nutrition shape childhood and adult cognitive skills and human capital. In poor countries -- and especially in South Asia -- widespread open defecation without making use of a toilet or latrine is an important source of childhood disease. This paper studies the effects...
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Village Sanitation and Children's Human Capital : Evidence from a Randomized Experiment by the Maharashtra Government
Hammer, Jeffrey S. - 2017
effect even on children in households that did not adopt latrines. Unusually, surveyors also collected data in districts …
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United We Stand Divided We Fall : Maternal Social Participation and Children's Nutritional Status in Peru
Favara, Marta - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974832
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Identifying Catch-Up Trajectories in Child Growth : New Methods with Evidence from Young Lives
Jones, Sam - 2018
Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper …
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Is Consanguinity an Impediment to Improving Human Development Outcomes?
Mete, Cem - 2017
finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954326
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The Effects of In-Kind Demand-Side Conditional Transfers for Improving Uptake of Maternal and Child Health Services in Rwanda
Shapira, Gil - 2017
To diagnose and treat preventable threats to maternal and neonatal health in Sub-Saharan Africa, a policy focus has been put on increasing coverage rates of targeted health services. Exploiting an experimental design, this study evaluates the impacts of an in-kind conditional transfer...
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Dynamics of Child Development : Analysis of a Longitudinal Cohort in a Very Low Income Country
Galasso, Emanuela - 2017
Longitudinal patterns of child development and socioeconomic status are described for a cohort of children in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962316
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The Socioeconomics of Fish Consumption and Child Health in Bangladesh
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2019
diseases for children in their first years of life. Better maternal education and family economic status significantly increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900874
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Cities, Slums, and Early Child Growth : Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh
Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
This study uses novel household survey data that are representative of Bangladesh's large cities, and of slum and nonslum areas within the cities, to investigate the effects of demographic and socioeconomic factors on early child growth in 2013. The study also decomposes the difference in mean...
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