reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting …,604 children under the age of 5. To identify the effect of aid, we rely on spatial and temporal variation in aid project coverage … already for children born in the early project implementation phase and lasts for children born up to 3 years after project …

hygiene (WASH) practices make nutrition intake more productive for children aged 6-24 months. Using cohort data, with detailed …This paper estimates flexible child health production functions to investigate whether better water, sanitation and … information on nutrition intake and WASH investments, and a control function approach to account for endogeneity of inputs, we …

It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India) on the benefits … functioning or health and there is no change in fuel consumption (and presumably greenhouse gas emissions). The difference between …

employed to study this effect. The paper finds that the cognitive abilities of children born to rural famine fathers were … affected and that the impact is more pronounced in girls than in boys, whereas children born to female survivors are not …

, it still is unclear whether these insurance expansions improve children's health, This paper exploits quasi … children's health, We find that access to insurance reduces childhood obesity and exerts positive and economically significant …Although a significant number of middle and low-income countries have expanded access to subsidized health insurance …

determinants of the height gap between children in India and sub-Saharan Africa as Jayachandran & Pande (2... …Um Armut zu bekämpfen, muss die menschliche Entwicklung gestärkt werden. Allerdings werden heute 250 Millionen Kinder … Robustheit der elterlichen Präferenzen als Hauptdeterminanten der Größenunterschiede zwischen Kinder... …

We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that … the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight … regressions show that the nutrition transition reduces child underweight, while no consistent effect on child overweight is found …

. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental … to be a major nutrition problem in developing countries that is declining more slowly than child underweight …. Supermarkets do not seem to be a driver of childhood obesity in Kenya. The positive effects of supermarkets on child nutrition are …