The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In … a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early … average impact of either intervention on anemia or mental development. However, we find a cross-productivity of children …

importance of commonly cited factors, such as mother's education and age, household wealth, and child birth order. However, the … cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …; dietary preferences related to religion and ethnicity; nutrition education; and administration of public health and nutrition …

hygiene (WASH) practices make nutrition intake more productive for children aged 6-24 months. Using cohort data, with detailed …This paper estimates flexible child health production functions to investigate whether better water, sanitation and … information on nutrition intake and WASH investments, and a control function approach to account for endogeneity of inputs, we …

early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … on mother fixed effects to allow for household and mother unobserved heterogeneity. Furthermore, this paper explores the … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …