school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian …

This paper investigates whether a large-scale deworming intervention aimed at primary school pupils in western Kenya … had long-term effects on young children in the region. The paper exploits positive externalities from the program to … estimate the impact on younger children who did not receive treatment directly. Ten years after the intervention, large …

challenges as activities are adapted to the decentralized national nutrition policy, and to help guide districts and provinces in … the conduct of locally appropriate nutrition programs. The paper synthesizes the findings of an extensive study undertaken … begins with a review of the accomplishments and remaining nutrition challenges for Indonesia. It then turns to look at the …

among young nonbeneficiary children by 34 percent (11 percentage points). Price and stunting effects increase in program …

This paper examines the extent to which the three key underlying determinants of nutrition -- food security; adequate … environment -- on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on … each component of the three underlying drivers of nutrition. In spite of the limitations inherent in the available data …

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 … associated with the quality of child nutrition. If using these food security indicators as proxy measures for the underlying …

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 …