Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … the importance of childhood nutrition ("lynn effect" and work complexity in explaining increases in nonverbal cognitive …

Most empirical investigations of the effects of cognitive skills assume that they are produced by schooling. Drawing on … the importance of childhood nutrition ("lynn effect" and work complexity in explaining increases in nonverbal cognitive …

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 …

produced primarily by schooling and (b) schooling is statistically predetermined. But these assumptions may lead to misleading … inferences about impacts of schooling and of pre-schooling and post-schooling experiences on adult cognitive skills. This study … uses an unusually rich longitudinal data set collected over 35 years in Guatemala to investigate production functions for …

This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building … on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the … costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten effective nutrition-specific interventions. This will require an annual …

This survey reviews the existing literature, identifying the contribution of agriculture, schooling, and nutrition to … middle income countries, improved schooling has been more important than improved nutrition or caloric intake in explaining … cases, improved nutrition helps raise labor productivity and allows individuals to work for longer hours, which makes human …