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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018
iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading scores of … not translate into statistically significant impacts on cognition and test scores. While exploring the heterogeneity in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131559
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Improving children health and cognition : evidence from school-based nutrition intervention in India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018
iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "mid-day meal" on anemia, cognition, and math and reading outcomes … translate into statistically significant impacts on cognition and test scores. While exploring the heterogeneity in effects, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859912
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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India
Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021
Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603279
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Anemia, diet, and cognitive development: impact of health information on diet quality and child nutrition in rural India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021
Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper studies the effect of a nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, hemoglobin levels, and cognitive outcomes of children in rural India. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487001
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013168222
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - In: Economic papers 41 (2022) 2, pp. 155-175
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013387213
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Anemia, diet, and cognitive development : impact of health information on diet quality and child nutrition in rural India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2019
Lack of information about health risks may limit adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper studies the effect of nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, child health, and cognitive ability of children in rural India. Using experimental data and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061520
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2019
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159221
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Impact of delivering iron-fortified salt through a school feeding program on child health, education and cognition : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in rural India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018
iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "midday meal" on anemia, cognition and math and reading outcomes of … health gains did not translate into statistically significant impacts on cognition and test scores. While exploring the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803552
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Impact of delivering iron-fortified salt through a school feeding program on child health, education and cognition : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in rural India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2018
iodine, through the Indian school-feeding program called "midday meal" on anemia, cognition and math and reading outcomes of … health gains did not translate into statistically significant impacts on cognition and test scores. While exploring the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011805842