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Health Sector Decentralization and Indonesia's Nutrition Programs : Opportunities and Challenges
Choi, Yoonjoung - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747683
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Development, modernization and son preference in fertility decisions
Filmer, Deon (contributor); Friedman, Jed (contributor);  … - 2008
"A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse health status, or lower educational attainment among girls. This study focuses on one measure of son preference in the developing world, namely the likelihood of continued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003758849
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Development, modernization, and childbearing : the role of family sex composition
Filmer, Deon; Friedman, Jed; Schady, Norbert Rüdiger - In: The World Bank economic review 23 (2009) 3, pp. 371-398
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003918176
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Development, Modernization, and Son Preference in Fertility Decisions
Filmer, Deon; Friedman, Jed; Schady, Norbert - 2012
A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse health status, or lower educational attainment among girls. This study focuses on one measure of son preference in the developing world, namely the likelihood of continued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552507
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Development, Modernization, and Son Preference in Fertility Decisions
Filmer, Deon - 2016
A family preference for sons over daughters may manifest itself in different ways, including higher mortality, worse health status, or lower educational attainment among girls. This study focuses on one measure of son preference in the developing world, namely the likelihood of continued...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747196
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Development, Modernization, and Childbearing
Filmer, Deon; Friedman, Jed; Schady, Norbert - 2009
Does the sex composition of existing children in a family affect fertility behavior? An unusually large data set, covering 64 countries and some 5 million births, is used to show that fertility behavior responds to the presence—or absence—of sons in many regions of the developing world. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561564
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Development, Modernization, and Childbearing : The Role of Family Sex Composition
Filmer, Deon - 2010
Does the sex composition of existing children in a family affect fertility behavior? An unusually large data set, covering 64 countries and some 5 million births, is used to show that fertility behavior responds to the presence-or absence-of sons in many regions of the developing world. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149915
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Impact evaluation of school feeding programs in Lao PDR
Buttenheim, Alison - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901552
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Cash Transfers, Food Prices, and Nutrition Impacts on Nonbeneficiary Children
Filmer, Deon - 2019
Based on a randomized evaluation, the paper shows that a household-targeted Philippine cash transfer program significantly raised the local price of key foods relevant for child nutritional status. This shift in prices increased stunting among young nonbeneficiary children by 34 percent (11...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899691
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Methods of household consumption measurement through surveys : experimental results from Tanzania
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Friedman, Jed; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901249