Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about …

her child's health. Mothers exposed to conflict during their childhood have more children and live in less wealthy … households, likely reducing their ability to invest during their children?s critical period of physical development. The finding … points to a potential trade-off between the quantity and quality of children. The paper uses information on monthly conflict …

rates in 2001, and the longer-term impact of the conflict on primary school completion of cohorts of children observed in …, resulting from household investment trade-offs between education and economic survival …

height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey …Economic shocks at birth have lasting effects on children's health several years after the shock. The authors calculate … exogenous shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. They find that boys and girls born after …

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 …

This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … in height-for-age of young children exposed during their first years of life, compared with a control group of households … children and adult cooks in treated households relative to control households. The results advance understanding of the health …

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … crop prices are positively associated with improved child stunting rates for children between ages 6 months and 5 years …

reduction over the past decade and a half, child undernutrition is still high. With 48 percent of children stunted, underweight … targeting of efforts to reduce undernutrition in Ethiopia is inefficient, in part because of the lack of data and updated …. It is shown that small area estimations are powerful predictors of undernutrition, even controlling for household …

Recent surveys show considerable progress in maternal and child health in Ethiopia. The improvement has been in health … inequalities by household wealth status, mothers? education, and place of residence. It is based on four Demographic and Health …

Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several … aid in reducing child malnutrition. Using nationally representative household surveys from 1995-96 and controlling for … program placement, Yamano, Alderman, and Christiaensen find that children between 6 and 24 months experienced about 0.9 cm …