family's health, nutrition, and finances. However, this does not increase overall adoption of health-promoting behaviors or … use a randomized experiment to evaluate the impacts of a communication training program for mothers on child health in … husbands and, thereby, boost investments in children's health. We find that the program increases spousal discussion about the …

On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the … nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid … urbanization taking place throughout the developing world and in targeting resources appropriately to raise population health. We …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling … productivity and the proxies specified for schooling and adult health are first discussed, and then the functional relationships …

Height is consulted as a latent indicator of early nutrition and lifetime health status. Height is observed to increase …. Height is determined by genetic make up and realized in part through satisfactory nutrition and health-related care and … in recent decades in populations where per capita national income has increased and public health activities have grown …

Hundreds of millions of children in less developed countries suffer from poor health and nutrition. Children in most … in developed countries. Recent research has shown that poor health and nutrition among children reduces their time in … health and nutrition on education, describes estimation problems and potential solutions, and summarizes recent empirical …

effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our … those with adverse prenatal health or high paternal BMI, an exception being that cognition is only affected by exposure at …

diversification strategies on household welfare and health outcomes (i.e. child nutrition) for both rural and urban dwellers. Thus … nutrition. Eight waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey (2005/06-2019/20) dataset collected by the Uganda Bureau of … improve child nutrition status. By and large, the results point to the fact that households should at least run a diversified …

significant effect on the overweight subsample. Additionally, we found nutrition knowledge to have a positive and significant … obese individuals. In addition, our findings point to the importance of nutrition knowledge in promoting 'healthier' food …