, and Nepal) and two from Sub-Saharan Africa (Tanzania and Uganda)-this paper conducts a systematic assessment of the … correlation between various measures of household food security and nutritional outcomes of children. The analysis, following the … the nutritional status of children that reside within the household. This result holds even after the analysis controls …

This paper examines an alternative to monitoring staff at a public health clinic in rural Uganda. The program sent SMS … messages led to an increase in clinic attendance, the receipt of medicine, and reduced duration of illness for young children … aged six and under. However, these benefits are only seen for children who are the same sex as the cell phone owner …

matter of concern in the region. We study this issue for Uganda, investigating whether the migration of household members … affects child primary education and in what direction. Using the Uganda National Panel Survey for 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011 … migration of children has a significant positive impact on child school attendance rates while that of adults has a …