. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental …. Supermarkets do not seem to be a driver of childhood obesity in Kenya. The positive effects of supermarkets on child nutrition are … to be a major nutrition problem in developing countries that is declining more slowly than child underweight …

treated persons. We estimate the impact of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition outcomes using longitudinal … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours … improvements. Since the improvements in children's schooling and nutrition at these critical early ages will affect their socio …

facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains … scarce. In this study we analyze whether mobile phones improve dietary quality of pastoralists in Northern Kenya. We use six …

associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show … a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure to parental migration on height-for-age Z-scores of left …-behind children relative to children who migrate with their parents. Additional results from a standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …

children living in poor households in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh state), Peru and Vietnam. By adopting a methodology to …

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 … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of … hukou status is negatively associated with children's weight-for-age Z-scores, even after controlling for household … characteristics, and girl children exhibit poorer nutritional status than boys. Results from a quantile decomposition procedure …

certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …