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The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There …
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covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that …This paper examines the growth effect of one of the largest nutrition assistance programs in early life. The program … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight …
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Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain … providing income support to families with children. In this paper we provide an in-depth assessment of the income support to … families with children in Spain. We distinguish between three different forms of income support: (1) benefits aimed to ease the …
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against undernutrition will be tracked by using this new standard. The use of the new reference standard will result in clear … changes in the prevalence and composition of undernutrition. This paper argues that this opportunity should be used to use … those measures that does not coincide with real improvements in the health of the affected children. This bias could lead to …
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exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …
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