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Fitzsimons, Emla; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2021

We show that children who are born at or just before the weekend are less likely to be breastfed, owing to poorer breastfeeding support services in hospitals at weekends. We use this variation to estimate the effect of breastfeeding on children’s development in the first five years of life,...

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Breastfeeding and child cognitive outcomes : evidence from a hospital-based breastfeeding support policy

Del Bono, Emilia; Rabe, Birgitta - 2012

This paper estimates the causal effects of breastfeeding on early child development using exogenous variation in breastfeeding support policies across UK maternity hospitals. Based on data from the Millennium Cohort Study, we find that mothers giving birth in hospitals where such policies are...

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Determinants of child development in India

Grafenstein, Liza von - 2021

Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder unter 5 Jahren in Ländern mit niedrigem und mittlerem Einkommen wahrscheinlich nicht ihr volles Entwicklungspotenzial erreichen. Um Hindernisse für eine optimale menschliche...

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Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-mercury and Child Cognitive Development

Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2020

data on adult cognitive test scores, schooling attainment, and occupation among coastal populations in Colombia to estimate … test scores upon exiting high school and their likelihood of continuing their schooling, while increasing (decreasing) 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

studies the effect of a nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, hemoglobin levels, and cognitive … health, and cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that light-touch nutrition information alone, even when …

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A macro-level assessment of introducing children food advertising restrictions on children's unhealthy food cognitions and behaviors

Lwin, May O.; Yee, Andrew Z. H.; Lau, Jerrald; Ng, … - In: International journal of advertising : the review of … 39 (2020) 7, pp. 990-1011

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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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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India

Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020

. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …

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Encouraging parents to invest: a randomized trial with two simple interventions in early childhood

Ebert, Cara; Heesemann, Esther Luise; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2020

The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early disadvantages in health and mental development. We distribute...

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The impact of child malnutrition and health on cognitive skills in Ethiopia : using a standard panel data analysis

Lemma, Kahsay Berhane - In: Poverty and well-being in East Africa : a multi-faceted …, (pp. 35-60). 2016

and nutrition have improved and primary school enrolments have increased. This study uses longitudinal data of 1813 strong …. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of child nutrition and health on their cognitive achievements measured … there is a positive association between child nutrition (measured by height-for-age WHO z-scores) and cognitive achievements …

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