improve child anthropometrics. One exception is that the communication training increases women's and children's intake of …Building on prior evidence that mothers often have a stronger preference for spending on children than fathers do, we … use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in …

individuals in Uganda. In particular, we examine the importance of wealth, relative to other key determinants, and by employing …, especially for pre-school aged children, but other factors are potentially as important. In particular, and in line with growing … empirical evidence, children born later than older brothers and sisters are more likely to be sick, as are those using …

construct an index of parent-child communication quality by comparing responses to statements about the children’s well …-being from both children and their parents. Applying the constructed communication measure in a continuous treatment empirical … behavior of adolescents may arise from the degree of communication between parent and child. Parent-child communication may …

This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS … messages led to an increase in clinic attendance, the receipt of medicine, and reduced duration of illness for young children … aged six and under. However, these benefits are only seen for children who are the same sex as the cell phone owner …

This study finds evidence of irreversible health deficits amongst young children who were exposed to the Lord …’s Resistance Army insurgency in Northern Uganda (1987- 2007). The causal effect of the conflict is found to be a 0.65 standard … deviation fall in height-for-age z-scores amongst children exposed for a period of more than six months. In contrast, the health …

matter of concern in the region. We study this issue for Uganda, investigating whether the migration of household members … affects child primary education and in what direction. Using the Uganda National Panel Survey for 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011 … migration of children has a significant positive impact on child school attendance rates while that of adults has a …