exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …

parenting-through which the transfers might influence child development. The program appeared to improve children's nutrition … health and development of their children. This program is of particular interest because, unlike other transfer programs that … actions, such as taking children to health clinics or sending them to school. This feature of the program makes it possible to …

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

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 …

Yemen. Among the mobile phone?using population, the share of households receiving food assistance more than doubled …

Uganda. The results are suggestive that promoting (small) livestock ownership has the potential to affect human nutrition in …

helped 0-5 year old children in the participating communities to bridge the gap in weight for age z-scores and the incidence …

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 …

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