that initiatives to end undernutrition in the region should focus on improving the diets of young children. This review of …. Children who are most at risk of experiencing poor feeding include those who are born small, have younger mothers, and live in …

first grade for a Mexico City private school that targets and subsidizes attendance for low-income children. Over three … more satisfied with their school and had higher educational expectations for their children. Unlike findings from low … indicate gains made by the lowest income students in the sample help explain the school's impact. This suggests private schools …

Sri Lanka is increasingly seeking to ensure that its public school system not only delivers greater shares of students …

objectives simultaneously, in rural India. Using an experiment in 230 schools, the paper measures the effects of the program on … students'school participation and academic performance over two years, while also examining heterogeneous impacts and … sustainability. The findings show that the program increased enrollment, especially among girls (8.1 percent in the first year, 11 …

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 … effect even on children in households that did not adopt latrines. Unusually, surveyors also collected data in districts …