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Poverty and nutrition : a case study of rural households in Thailand and Viet Nam
Waibel, Hermann; Hohfeld, Lena - 2016
In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people and especially of children. We find that undernutrition … Organization's threshold. We investigate the factors that influence nutrition outcomes, measured as Z-scores of the weight …
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Low malnutrition but high mortality : explaining the puzzle of the Lake Victoria region
Gräb, Johannes; Priebe, Jan - 2010
Comparing DHS data from 235 regions in 29 Sub-Saharan Africa countries, we find that the combination of low levels of malnutrition together with dramatically high rates of mortality, encountered in Kenya's Lake Victoria territory, is unique for Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper explores the causes...
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The nutritional returns to parental education
Alderman, Harold; Headey, Derek D. - 2014
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How important is parental education for child nutrition?
Alderman, Harold; Headey, Derek D. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 94 (2017), pp. 448-464
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The measurement of food insecurity among children : review of literature and concept note
Fram, Maryah S.; Bernal, Jennifer; Frongillo, Edward A. - 2015
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Intrahousehold and interhousehold child nutrition inequality in Malawi
Mussa, Richard - In: The South African journal of economics 83 (2015) 1, pp. 140-153
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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the...
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How consumer price subsidies affect nutrition
Kaushal, Neeraj; Muchomba, Felix M. - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 74 (2015), pp. 25-42
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Explaining cross-state disparities in child nutrition in Rural India
Cavatorta, Elisa; Shankar, Bhavani; Flores-Martinez, … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 76 (2015), pp. 216-237
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