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We use time-series of rainfall along with individual fixed effects to estimate the response of body weight to transitory changes in house-hold income and expenditure. Our data consist of a longitudinal sample of subsistence farmers in rural Tazania, representing one of the poorest populations in...
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measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …
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This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...
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differently at different points of the conditional nutritional distribution. -- child health ; child nutrition ; malnutrition … effects of these determinants. However, socioeconomic background variables and policy interventions may affect child nutrition …
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This paper re-enters the contested discussion surrounding the Indian Enigma, the high prevalence of chronic undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the worse treatment of higher birth order children,...
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effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian … rainfall on agricultural output, leading to higher household incomes and better health for infant girls. We present suggestive … leads to higher spousal quality, which in turn improves socioeconomic status. Adult women's education and health do not …
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measures of nutrition - gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …
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, agriculture-nutrition linkages have received a lot of attention in recent years. Researchers have analysed the link between the … third agriculture-nutrition link has been largely neglected in recent years: the impact of how food is produced on human … timeuse as well as food and nutrition data was collected from male and female adults and from children during different …
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Programs designed to improve child nutrition are widespread. The ability of such programs to improve the nutrition of … 'sticks' to the child. This paper contributes to the literature on flypaper effects using data from a nutrition intervention …
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basic facts about growth, poverty and nutrition in India, it points to a number of puzzles, and it sketches a preliminary … health environment. If correct, this analysis does not imply that Indians are currently adequately nourished; nothing could …
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