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"Studies have shown that malnourished children in developing countries score lower on tests of cognitive function and …
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administered by the Danish Ministry of Education. Our results indicate that fetal exposure to Ramadan has a negative impact on the … concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …
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Early childhood nutrition is thought to have important effects on education, broadly defined to include various forms … of learning. We advance beyond previous literature on the effect of early childhood nutrition on education in developing … birth to 36 months, our results indicate significantly positive, and fairly substantial, effects of the randomized nutrition …
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A natural experiment in education on Israeli kibbutzim, where investment in human capital is equal for all children … allocated to the education of children from low-income families …, allows us to differentiate between the effect on children's grades of genetics and home environment on the one hand and of …
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nutrition and health, and a risk coping strategy used by farmers in the face of climate change. However, there is no systematic … empirical evidence on the role played by crop diversification in improving human health. We use the Tanzania National Panel … Survey for years 2008 and 2010, which includes about 3,700 children, to investigate the effect of crop diversification on …
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