Eine ausreichend gute Ernährung stellt einen Grundpfeiler für die Formation von Humankapital da. Nur ein gut ernährtes und gesundes Kind wird regelmäßig zur Schule gehen, auf die Einflüsse seiner Umwelt adäquate reagieren und genug lernen um gute Bildungsergebnisse zu erzielen....

The link between malnutrition and poor health among elementary school children and absenteeism, early dropout and poor classroom performance as well as the effectiveness of school-based nutrition and health interventions in improving school performance are well-established in the literature....

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...

In the aftermath of the Asian financial crises, the Indonesian government launched a subsidized rice program called RASKIN in 1998 to moderate the shocks of food price inflation and reduced employment to poor households. The program has been continued since then with an objective to provide food...

We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of the policy across municipalities and employ a difference- in-differences design to estimate the...

Brazil has one of the greatest income concentrations in the planet. Most adverse health outcomes are more common among the poor. The Family Health Program (PSF) was introduced in the 1990s to provide high quality primary health care especially to the poorest. The program (PSF) seems to have an...