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Changing Eating Habits - A Field Experiment in Primary Schools

Michèle, Belot; Jonathan, James; Patrick, Nolen - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 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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The determinants of child weight and height in Sri Lanka: A quantile regression approach

Aturupane, Harsha; Deolalikar, Anil B.; Gunewardena, Dileni - 2008

Reducing child malnutrition is a key goal of most developing countries. To combat child malnutrition with the right set of interventions, policymakers need to have a better understanding of its economic, social and policy determinants. While there is a large literature that investigates the...

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Are Foster Children Made Better Off by Informal Fostering Arrangements?

Kana, Legrand Yémélé; Dessy, Sylvain; Ewoudou, Jacques - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010

Research on the effects of informal child fostering arrangements on the welfare of the children involved highlights cross-country disparities. Why may there be differences across countries with regard to the effects of informal child fostering arrangements? If in all countries reporting a high...

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Does Greater Autonomy among Women Provide the Key to Better Child Nutrition?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhaskar, Anjor; Srivastava, Nisha - 2016

in children's nutritional outcomes. Using data from the Third Round of the National Family Health Survey for India … "window of opportunity" for lifelong health and economic benefits. …

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Does greater autonomy among women provide the key to better child nutrition?

Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhaskar, Anjor; Srivastava, Nisha - 2016

in children's nutritional outcomes. Using data from the Third Round of the National Family Health Survey for India … "window of opportunity" for lifelong health and economic benefits. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453440

Effects of forced displacement on health

Zilic, Ivan - 2015

This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991 …-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is … relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured and self-assessed health. We adopt an instrumental variable approach …

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Suffer for the faith? : parental religiosity and children's health

Popova, Olga - 2016

This paper provides novel evidence on differences in health outcomes of children in religious and non …-religious families in Russia. The health indicators analyzed include the subjective health status and anthropometric outcomes. The … does not affect children's height-for-age, but increases children's body mass index and subjective health. Father …

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Extreme weather events and child height : evidence from Mongolia

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - 2014

We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the extremely harsh winter - locally referred to as dzud - of 2009/10, which caused more than 23 percent of the national livestock to perish. This resulted in a food insecurity...

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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations

Qaim, Matin - 2014

Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … and health impacts have rarely been analyzed. In this article, we argue that future impact studies should include …

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The impact of extreme weather events on child health : evidence from Mongolia ; conference paper

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - 2014 - Draft

This paper investigates the impact of a devastating weather shock on child anthropometrics, using data from Mongolia. We employ a diff-in-diff strategy to identify the effect of an extremely harsh winter in 2010, which caused the death of about 20 percent of the national livestock. Results...

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