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

those measures that does not coincide with real improvements in the health of the affected children. This bias could lead to …

exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …

empirical evidence, this paper discusses the effect of this expansion in health infrastructure on child nutrition in Peru, as … better-endowed districts. The pro-poor bias refers to the fact that the estimated effect is larger for children of less … excluding the rural population, a traditionally marginalized population group in Peru. These findings support the idea that …