Adequate nutrition constitutes a cornerstone of human capital formation. Only a well-nourished and healthy child will … attend school regularly, react properly to the stimuli from its environment and learn sufficiently to achieve good education … outcomes. In contrast, a low level of education might result in low adult productivity and income poverty, which in turn might …

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …

-2014, this paper examines the impact of RASKIN on children's health status. Using the difference-in-difference estimator, we find … that children from the households that are beneficiaries of the RASKIN program show improved health status as measured by … improved anthropometric health outcomes for these children in later years. The gains are found to be higher for children who …

differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …