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Supermarket food purchases and child nutritional outcomes in Kenya

Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Demmler, Kathrin M.; Klasen, … - 2018

In many developing countries, supermarkets are spreading rapidly at the expense of traditional food markets and shops …. Changing retail environments and food choices may affect consumer diets and nutritional outcomes. Previous research suggested … variable regressions show that supermarket food purchases significantly increase child height-for-age and weight-for age Z …

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Internal vs. international migration : impacts of remittances on child well-being in Vietnam

Binci, Michele; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2012

This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The...

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Internal vs. International Migration : Impacts of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam

Binci, Michele - 2012

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Children's perception of food and healthy eating : dynamics behind their food preferences

Atik, Deniz; Ertekin, Zeynep Ozdanar - In: International journal of consumer studies 37 (2013) 1, pp. 59-65

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Helps my family survive hard times : an innovative summertime food relief program in New Haven, Connecticut

Zigmont, Victoria A.; Tomczak, Stephen Monroe; Bromage, … - In: Journal of poverty : innovations on social, political & … 26 (2022) 2, pp. 162-179

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Methodological review and revision of the global hunger index

Wiesmann, Doris; Biesalski, Hans-Konrad - 2015

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a multidimensional measure of hunger that considers three dimensions: (1) inadequate dietary energy supply, (2) child undernutrition, and (3) child mortality. The initial version of the index included the following three, equally weighted, non-standardized (i.e....

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Complementarities in the production of child health

Abramovsky, Laura; Augsburg, Britta; Jervis, Pamela; … - 2019

This paper estimates ﬂexible child health production functions to investigate whether better water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practices make nutrition intake more productive for children aged 6-24 months. Using cohort data, with detailed information on nutrition intake and WASH...

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Cash Transfers for Child Development : Experimental Evidence from India

Weaver, Jeffrey; Sukhtankar, Sandip; Niehaus, Paul; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite significant economic growth, child development outcomes in India remain poor. Using a large-scale experiment in which randomly-selected mothers receive cash transfers for the first two years of their child's life, we examine the relationship between income and child development in the...

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The curse of bad geography : stagnant water, diseases, and children's human capital

Berggreen, Steve; Mattisson, Linn - 2023

Waterborne diseases lead to over 6 billion diarrheal episodes per year, with most of the burden on children in low-income countries. We employ hydrological engineering principles to construct a novel measure of stagnant water, crucial to the spread of these diseases. Using a...

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On Intergenerational Immobility : Evidence that Adult Credit Health Reflects the Childhood Environment

Goodman, Sarena; Henriques Volz, Alice; Mezza, Alvaro - 2017

Using a novel dataset that links socioeconomic background to future credit, postsecondary education, and federal student loan and grant records, we document that, even though it is not and cannot be used by credit agencies in assigning risk, background is a strong predictor of adult credit...

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