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 …

outcomes in children. Emerging literature describes the negative effects of poor sanitation on child growth. However, limited … water contaminated with E. coli could affect the nutritional status of children through various possible biological pathways … uptake and absorption. This study explores the relationship between contaminated water and stunting prevalence among children …

together account for 90 percent of the world's stunted children. The first calculation asks how much lower a country's per …. The second calculation estimates the economic value and the costs associated with scaling up a package of nutrition … 10 nutrition interventions for which data are available on the effects and costs. The estimated rate-of-return from …

Substantial work has demonstrated that early nutrition and home environments, including the degree to which children … children in the preschool years living in low-income countries. Using panel data on parenting, nutrition status, and early … development. Yet, less work has documented the joint influences of parenting and nutrition status on child development among …

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 …