Adequate nutrition constitutes a cornerstone of human capital formation. Only a well-nourished and healthy child will … attend school regularly, react properly to the stimuli from its environment and learn sufficiently to achieve good education … outcomes. In contrast, a low level of education might result in low adult productivity and income poverty, which in turn might …

To overcome poverty, strengthening human development is crucial. However, today 250 million children younger than 5 … determinants of the height gap between children in India and sub-Saharan Africa as Jayachandran & Pande (2... …

understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects … Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these …