, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect … of mother adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth and development from infancy through adolescence using data from … Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam and Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation that employs rainfall shocks during mother …

undernutrition and poverty. This study uses longitudinal data that include math, reading, and receptive vocabulary test scores at … ages eight and 15 years for children in four low- and middle-income countries.We find associations between nutrition status … with nutritional status at age 12 and with preadolescence wealth at age 12 for boys in India and Peru, as well as all boys …

According to the Timor-Leste Demographic and Health Survey, in 2016 about 46 percent of all children less than five … years old are stunted, 24 percent are wasted, and 40 percent are anemic. Rural children are more at risk of being … malnourished than urban children; boys are at greater risk than girls of being malnourished in their first two years of life; and …

children, while overweight and obesity have reached epidemic proportions, affecting about 60 percent of reproductive-age (15 to … 49 years) women and increasing among children under five. To accelerate the progress in reducing stunting, anemia, and … mandatory fortification of staple foods, distribution of micronutrient supplements to all children, and distribution of …