exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in …

animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … exposed. We do not find robust effects on the probability of obtaining an upper secondary education. …

transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental …

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 …

Given recent interest in reducing undernutrition–particularly the role of nutrition-sensitive policies–this paper … and maternal nutritional change and then decompose predicted changes in nutrition outcomes over time. …

Though parental education is widely perceived to be an important determinant of child nutrition outcomes, there remain … significant uncertainties about whether maternal or paternal education matters most, whether there are increasing or decreasing … returns to parental education, and whether these returns are robust given that recent gains in enrollment have not always …

in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers … to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments based on the weight‐for‐age nutritional status of children in their … care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only their standard salary. Mothers of children in all three …