The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … instrumental variables to account for migration selection. Our results show that parental migration has no significant impact on …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … household registration (designed to limit domestic migration flows by denying urban public services to migrants with rural … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household …

Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this paper employs difference-in-difference propensity score … matching to examine whether the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contributes to childhood obesity. We find no …

The impact of group-based credit programs on the nutritional status of children by gender in rural Bangladesh is … statistically significant impact on two of three measures of the nutritional well-being of both boy and girl children. Credit …

in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers … to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments based on the weight‐for‐age nutritional status of children in their … care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only their standard salary. Mothers of children in all three …

and issues across several disciplines including economics, nutrition, psychology and public health in the hope of … variables on a number of issues like cognitive development in children and labour productivity in the developing world. These …