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Public and private returns to investing in nutrition
Alderman, Harold; Sahn, David E. - In: The Oxford handbook of economics and human biology, (pp. 405-433). 2016
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Are children with siblings really more vulnerable than only children in health, cognition and non-cognitive outcomes? : evidence from a multi-province dataset in China
Zhou, Hua; Mo, Di; Renfu, Luo; Yue, Ai; Rozelle, Scott - In: China & world economy 24 (2016) 3, pp. 3-17
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Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood : evidence from India
Kumar, Santosh; Kumar, Kaushalendra; Laxminarayan, Ramanan - 2022
Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the effect of birth weight on cognitive development during childhood in...
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Air pollution and adult cognition: evidence from brain training
La Nauze, Andrea; Severnini, Edson R. - 2021
We exploit novel data from brain-training games to examine the impacts of air pollution on a comprehensive set of cognitive skills of adults. We find that exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5) impairs adult cognitive function, and that these effects are largest for those in prime working age....
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Age at school transition and children's cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes
Tushar, Bharati,; Green, Thea Harpley - 2021
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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India
Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021
Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the...
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Anemia, diet, and cognitive development: impact of health information on diet quality and child nutrition in rural India
Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021
Lack of information about health risks may limit the adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper studies the effect of a nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, hemoglobin levels, and cognitive outcomes of children in rural India. Using...
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The impact of nutritional interventions on child health and cognitive development
Bommer, Christian; Mittal, Nitya; Vollmer, Sebastian - In: Annual review of resource economics 12 (2020), pp. 345-366
Despite growing policy commitment and decades of extensive research, nutritional deficiencies remain a key challenge for health systems worldwide. In addition to causing significant personal costs for those affected, indirect effects, such as reduced overall human capital accumulation or losses...
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The legacy lead deposition in soils and its impact on cognitive function in preschool-aged children in the United States
Clay, Karen; Portnykh, Margarita; Severnini, Edson R. - 2019
to impair cognition today, both in the United States and in other countries that have considerable lead deposition in …
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … early ages and weakens over time, while the cognition effect surges only in early adolescence. The analysis on heterogeneous …
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