within a woman's ethnic group. Second, postpartum abstinence is de facto pronatalist, as it increases the number of children … ever born to a woman. At the same time, it increases the number of children of a woman who have died; lengthens birth … postpartum abstinence as a means to protect child health, while aligning with anthropological evidence documenting its adoption …

health campaigns. Focusing on shared religious affiliation as a signal of proximity, we implemented a field experiment during …

meal. We further find that the negative effect of postprandial somnolence on cognition operates through increased feelings …

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 …

Programs designed to improve child nutrition are widespread. The ability of such programs to improve the nutrition of … individual children depends on how households choose to allocate resources among their members; interventions that target … 'sticks' to the child. This paper contributes to the literature on flypaper effects using data from a nutrition intervention …

providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are … supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise mothers on health and nutrition for their child. Our one-day caregiver … training covered basic health and nutrition facts with advice on how to communicate with mothers for behavior change at home …

This paper aims to investigate the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years … examine the pattern of child health inequality. The results of the anthropometric measures show that 1.5% of children in … general disparity in child health is low across demographic characteristics. Inequality of opportunity in Tunisia is …

undernutrition in India relative to sub-Saharan Africa. Jayachandran & Pande argue that the key to the Indian enigma lies in the … worse treatment of higher birth order children, particularly girls. Analyzing new data, we find: (1) Parameter estimates are … sensitive to sampling design and model specification; (2) The gap between the heights of pre-school African and Indian children …