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Household responses to information on child nutrition : experimental evidence from Malawi

Fitzsimons, Emla; Malde, Bansi; Mesnard, Alice; … - 2012

Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in …This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health … funded by increased father's labor supply, constituting evidence that changes in the perceived child health production …

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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India

Grafenstein, Liza von; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021

experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition …Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide …

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Geography, Health, and the Pace of Demo-Economic Development

Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2007

This paper investigates the impact of subsistence consumption and extrinsic and intrinsic causes of child mortality on fertility and child expenditure. It offers a theory for why mankind multiplies at higher rates at geographically unfavorable, tropical locations. Placed into a macroeconomic...

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Socioeconomic differences in the health of black Union Army soldiers

Lee, Chulhee - 2009

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Can economic crises be good for your diet?

Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - 2011

With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...

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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Scholte, Robert S.; van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Scholte, Robert; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2012

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...

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Social dynamics of obesity

Burke, Mary Cecilia (contributor); … - 2006

In order to explain the substantial recent increases in obesity rates in the United States, we consider the effect of falling food prices in the context of a model involving endogenous body weight norms and an explicit, empirically grounded description of human metabolism. Unlike previous...

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"Eat, my child" - overweight and obesity among children in developing countries

Minos, Dimitrios - 2016

Childhood obesity in developing countries is a topic that hasn’t found its way in the economic literature yet. Despite the fact that obesity rates are rising worldwide and the phenomenon is very present even among the poorest of households in developing countries, most of the attention is...

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