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WIC, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, is a widely studied public food … assistance program that aims to provide foods, nutrition education and other services to at-risk, low-income children and … pregnant, breastfeeding and postpartum women. From a policy perspective, it is of interest to assess the efficacy of the WIC …
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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d'Ivoire. To identify the true impact of conflict, we use prewar and post-war household data bracketing the conflict period and the spatial variation in the prevalence of conflict between the North and...
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that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs … relative to men associated with changing cumulative net nutrition. The primary source of female-male within-group variation was …
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A population's average stature reflects cumulative net nutrition and changing long-run economic conditions facing women …’s economic opportunity, inequality, and net nutrition during development. This study uses stature as a measure for cumulative net … nutrition to show how female and male statures varied around the US Civil War. Male statures and net nutrition decreased more …
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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d'Ivoire. To identify the true impact of conflict, we use prewar and post-war household data bracketing the conflict period and the spatial variation in the prevalence of conflict between the North and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738533
statures, indicating there was a willingness-to-accept poorer cumulative urban health and net nutrition in exchange for urban …
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lower weights than rural residents. Urban net nutrition varied by race, and urban whites and blacks had lower BMIs, shorter … statures, and lower weights compared to their rural counterparts. Urban male net nutrition experienced greater variation than …
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Food security and nutrition policy interventions generally rely on selective measures. Yet recent literature emphasizes … the importance of identifying different pathways from agriculture to nutrition for better nutritional outcomes. Using a … food security indicators along the agriculture-nutrition pathways. Through a broadened and comprehensive approach under one …
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In the context of developing countries multiple pathways have been proposed from the agriculture to the nutrition …
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movements may have affected farmer and non-farmer's net nutrition. Despite 19th and early 20th century US political movements …
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