covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight …This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … characteristics in rural coastal Bangladesh. We evaluate the health consequences of rising temperature and relative humidity and … varying rainfall jointly. Leveraging a saturated fixed-effects model that controls for annual trends and location …

, tropical locations. Placed into a macroeconomic framework this behavior creates an indirect channel through which geography …

associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show … a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

several of the goals. But many countries, most especially in Africa, will not. The projections show that poverty will become … more heavily concentrated in Africa in both relative and absolute terms. In addition, whilst urban poverty will increase …, in 2015 poverty will remain a predominately rural phenomenon, with 60-70 per cent of the poor (depending on the measure …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

-market opportunities on sleep patterns; the effect of having children; the consequences of the decreased division of labor within the …