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Nutrition Knowledge, Household Coping, and the Demand for Micronutrient-Rich Foods

Block, Steven - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2003

This study applies both parametric and non-parametric techniques to a new household data set from rural Indonesia to explain previous findings of a reduced-form relationship between nutrition knowledge and child micronutrient status. Households of mothers with and without nutrition knowledge...

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Changing Eating Habits – A Field Experiment in Primary Schools.

School of Economics, University of Edinburgh - 2013

We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test whether incentives to eat fruit and vegetables help children develop healthier habits. The intervention consists of rewarding children with stickers and little gifts for a period of four weeks for choosing a portion of fruit...

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Family income and child outcomes: the 1990 cocoa price shock in Cote d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - DIAL - 2008

We study the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Cote d’Ivoire and investigate the extent to which cocoa producers’ children suffered from this severe income shock in terms of school enrollment, increased labor, height stature and sickness. Comparing pre-crisis...

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Commodity Price Shocks and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Crisis in Côte d'Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2010

We look at the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Côte d'Ivoire and study to which extent cocoa producers' children suffered from this severe aggregate shock in terms of school enrollment, labor, height stature and morbidity. Using pre-crisis (1985-88) and post- crisis...

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Commodity Price Shocks and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Crisis in Côte d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

We look at the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Côte d'Ivoire and study to which extent cocoa producers' children su®ered from this severe aggregate shock in terms of school enrollment, labor, height stature and morbidity. Using pre-crisis (1985-88) and post- crisis...

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Family Income and Child Outcomes: The 1990 Cocoa Price Shock in Cote d’Ivoire

Cogneau, Denis; Jedwab, Rémi - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008

We study the drastic cut of the administered cocoa producer price in 1990 Cote d’Ivoire and investigate the extent to which cocoa producers’ children suﬀered from this severe income shock in terms of school enrollment, increased labor, height stature and sickness. Comparing pre-crisis...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074011

To Charge or Not to Charge: Evidence from a Health Products Experiment in Uganda

Fischer, Greg; Karlan, Dean; McConnell, Margaret; … - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2014

a comparison effect, decrease subsequent demand. This tension is particularly important for the distribution of health … experiment in Northern Uganda in which three health products differing in their scope for learning were initially offered either …

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Iron status, malaria parasite loads and food policies: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Bhargava, Alok - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 1, pp. 108-112

This brief article investigates the consequences of improving children's iron status for malaria parasite loads by analyzing data from Cote d’Ivoire, Zambia, and Tanzania; the treatment of iron deficiencies has been argued to flare up malaria in under-nourished populations. The data from a...

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Information and subsidies: Complements or substitutes?

Ashraf, Nava; Jack, B. Kelsey; Kamenica, Emir - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 88 (2013) C, pp. 133-139

particularly relevant for health products in developing countries where both informational campaigns and price subsidies are common …

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Population and Health Policies

Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting … economists can clarify regarding the causal relationships between economic development, health outcomes, and reproductive … under which people live and their expected life span and health status refers to "health production functions." The …

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