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Chapter 56 The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries
Glewwe, Paul; Miguel, Edward A. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3561-3606). 2007
Hundreds of millions of children in less developed countries suffer from poor health and nutrition. Children in most … in developed countries. Recent research has shown that poor health and nutrition among children reduces their time in … school and their learning during that time. This implies that programs or policies that increase children's health status …
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Nutrition Knowledge, Household Coping, and the Demand for Micronutrient-Rich Foods
Block, Steven - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2003
This study applies both parametric and non-parametric techniques to a new household data set from rural Indonesia to explain previous findings of a reduced-form relationship between nutrition knowledge and child micronutrient status. Households of mothers with and without nutrition knowledge...
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Incentives and children's dietary choices : a field experiment in primary schools
Belot, Michèle; James, Jonathan G.; Nolen, Patrick - 2015
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348301
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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools
Belot, Michèle; James, Jonathan; Nolen, Patrick J. - 2015
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on increasing the choice and consumption of fruit and vegetables at lunchtime. The individual scheme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401704
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Changing Eating Habits – A Field Experiment in Primary Schools.
School of Economics, University of Edinburgh - 2013
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test whether incentives to eat fruit and vegetables help children develop healthier habits. The intervention consists of rewarding children with stickers and little gifts for a period of four weeks for choosing a portion of fruit...
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Early life determinants of cognitive ability : a comparative study on Madagascar and Senegal
Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E.; Sunder, Naveen - 2018
cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status - shorter individuals show a stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011867909
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Long-Term Impacts of Growth and Development Monitoring: Evidence from Routine Health Examinations in Early Childhood
Liang, Yinhe; Peng, Xiaobo; Sun, Meiping Aggie - 2024
monitoring through routine health checkups for all young children (0-6 years) in China. Using data on the program's county … provide evidence of several underlying mechanisms, including improved physical and mental health, better educational outcomes …, increased cognitive skills, and sustained use of routine health checkups among adolescents. …
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Early Life Determinants of Cognitive Ability: A Comparative Study on Madagascar and Senegal
Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E.; Sunder, Naveen - 2018
cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873554
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The Effect of Female Education on Marital Matches and Child Health in Bangladesh
Hahn, Youjin - 2019
assortative mating. Those educated women appear to experience greater autonomy in making decisions on receiving their own health … care and visiting their family. Furthermore, educated women have lower fertility and use more maternal health care, and … their children have better health outcomes than those of less educated women. Overall, our results suggest that the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902591
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Brains versus Brawn : Labor Market Returns to Intellectual and Health Human Capital in a Poor Developing Country
Behrman, Jere; Hoddinott, John; Maluccio, John A.; … - 2012
Previous studies report that adult height has significant associations with wages even controlling for schooling. But schooling and height are imperfect measures of adult cognitive skills (“brains”) and strength (“brawn”); further they are not exogenous. Analysis of rich Guatemalan...
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