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We use four waves of panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the link between Food for Work (FFW) participation and the diversity of food consumption and production. Food-based transfer programs have become a standard tool for addressing the problem of chronic food insecurity in...
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-Saharan African countries, in the fields of social protection and food and nutrition security policies and programmes, have directly … protection and food and nutrition security programmes and instruments inspired and encouraged by the Brazilian experiences, and …
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nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …
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wellbeing than on the one of women, women seem to be more conscientious with respect to nutrition and nutrition impacts stronger …
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We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of the policy across municipalities and employ a difference-in-differences design to estimate the...
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Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...
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nutrition in particular. Yet, progress in either of these dimensions, particularly among young children (SDG target 2.2 on … management for improved health and nutrition. We focus on rural and peri-urban areas of the developing world, where multi … the trade-offs between specific uses and their implications for health and nutrition, based on the gender and age of …
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hygiene (WASH) practices make nutrition intake more productive for children aged 6-24 months. Using cohort data, with detailed … information on nutrition intake and WASH investments, and a control function approach to account for endogeneity of inputs, we …
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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early disadvantages in health and mental development. We distribute...
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