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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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Early childhood nutrition, parental growth perceptions and educational aspirations in rural Burkina Faso

Zou, Wenbo; Lybbert, Travis J.; Vosti, Stephen Anthony; … - In: The journal of development studies 56 (2020) 4, pp. 798-816

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What cognitive sciences have to say about the impacts of nutritional labelling formats

Muller, Laurent; Prevost, Marie - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 55 (2016), pp. 17-29

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The cognitive effects of micronutrient deficiency : evidence from salt iodization in the United States

Feyrer, James Donald; Politi, Dimitra; Weil, David N. - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 15 (2017) 2, pp. 255-387

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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 - 2019

studies the effect of nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, child health, and cognitive ability of … cognitive outcomes of children. Our findings suggest that nutrition information alone, even when parents are informed about the …

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Can iron-fortified salt control anemia? : evidence from two experiments in rural Bihar

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Barnhardt, Sharon; Duflo, Esther - In: Journal of development economics 133 (2018), pp. 127-146

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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India

Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019

Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...

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