captures the link between changes in household incomes and changes in nutrition status, this paper provides a quantitative … assessment of the agricultural, economy-wide, and nutritional impacts of the 2008 Hadramout flash flood in Yemen. The model … simulations point to strong and persistent negative effects on agricultural value added, farm household incomes and nutrition …

measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net … energy intake for adults, and for children, weight for height and stature. Our finding indicate a clear positive effect of …

Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in … increases in household food consumption, particularly of protein-rich foods by children. The increased household consumption is …

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …'s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to … microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is …

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …’s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to … microcredit, plays a role in children’s food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is …

effects of these determinants. However, socioeconomic background variables and policy interventions may affect child nutrition …

the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than younger children. In this paper we explore the child … analysis is based on a sample of over 13,000 children (and their parents) drawn from the Health Survey for England. In … evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …

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 …