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Learning and behavioral spillovers of nutritional information
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are given recipe books in the treatment group to reduce malnutrition in their …
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Poverty, Undernutrition and Vulnerability in Rural India : Public Works Versus Food Subsidy
Jha, Raghbendra - 2011
This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large household datasets constructed with National Sample Survey...
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When Institutions Fail : The Case of Underage Marriage in India
Goodwin, Michele - 2017
When do we know that the rule of law has failed or been corrupted? Who can we point to as corrupting legal order or the rule of law when most of the parties appear to be one-shotters? One shot players lack the ability to quickly master and more importantly conquer sophisticated legal labyrinths...
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Calorie Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra - 2014
This paper tests for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of the nutrient most likely to have productivity impacts, i.e., calories, for three categories of wages - sowing, harvesting, and other - and for male and female workers separately. We use household level national...
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Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag - 2014
We test for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of calories and four important micronutrients carotene, iron, riboflavin, and thiamine- for three categories of wages: sowing, harvesting, and other for male and female workers separately. We use household level national...
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Food Price Subsidies and Nutrition : Evidence from State Reforms to India's Public Distribution System
Krishnamurthy, Prasad; Pathania, Vikram; Tandon, Sharad - 2015
We investigate whether food price subsidies affect household nutrition using a dramatic expansion of the availability of subsidized rice in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in the early 2000's. Households in Chhattisgarh increased their consumption of pulses, animal-based protein, and produce...
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Adult Undernutrition in India : Is There a Huge Gender Gap?
Jose, Sunny - 2015
The prevalence of discrimination against women along with the absence of data led to an assumption that a large gender gap existed in adult under-nutrition in India. The availability for the first time of comparable all-India nutritional data for men and women enables us to examine the empirical...
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Explaining Socioeconomic-Related Child Malnutrition Inequality in India : Decomposition of the Wealth Based Concentration Index
Sarkar, Debaprasad; Haldar, Sushil Kumar - 2014
malnutrition (compromised z-scores) for different socioeconomic complimentary sub-groups in India. The investigation starts with an … assessment of the socioeconomic determinants for the compromised z-scores (h/a) and malnutrition elasticity of determining … factors. Subsequently, the measurement of inequality in child malnutrition is done using concentration indices, which is …
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Overall Inequality Verses Wealth Based Inequality in Child Malnutrition : An Empirical Illustration for India
Sarkar, Debaprasad; Haldar, Sushil Kumar - 2014
This paper outlines a comparison empirically between overall inequality in child malnutrition (Malnutrition-Gini) and … wealth based inequality in child malnutrition (Wealth-Based-Concentration Index) for Indian children. The framework by A … child malnutrition (compromised or all negative z-scores) of all three anthropometric forms are taken from NFHS III round …
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Socioeconomic Determinants of Child Malnutrition in India : Evidence from NFHS-III
Sarkar, Debaprasad; Haldar, Sushil Kumar - 2014
Prevalence of malnutrition among under-five children is very high in many developing countries in the World. As a step … towards reducing the prevalence, there is need to identify the important determinants of malnutrition in the specific context …. This study examines the important socioeconomic determinants of malnutrition among under-five children in India …
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