Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …'s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to … microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is …

Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …'s relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to … microcredit, plays a role in children's food security, measured by anthropometric nutritional Z-scores. Access to microcredit is …

Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in … increases in household food consumption, particularly of protein-rich foods by children. The increased household consumption is …

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

hygiene (WASH) practices make nutrition intake more productive for children aged 6-24 months. Using cohort data, with detailed … information on nutrition intake and WASH investments, and a control function approach to account for endogeneity of inputs, we … that this is not driven by differential parental invest-ments by child gender. Although the study sample are children born …

early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel …

We evaluate an intervention targeting early life nutrition and well-being for households in extreme poverty in Northern … Nigeria. The intervention leads to large and sustained improvements in children's anthropometric and health outcomes … children, and generate higher household earnings streams long after the cash transfers expire. …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …