Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control … for other correlates of undernutrition, and add country-level GDP per capita. We find that increases in GDP per capita are …

country and children under two years during the famine were most adversely affected. We also account for model uncertainty by …

wide range of outcomes of children of mothers who were exposed in-utero including income, education, employment, and … affected and their children. We find that on average, the famine had negative echo effects on second-generation outcomes. These …

This paper evaluates a large-scale maternal cash transfer program targeted to pregnant women and mothers of children …) in a random subset of villages. Both interventions lead to a large reduction in the proportion of children (moderately …

, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect … of mother adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth and development from infancy through adolescence using data from … Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam and Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation that employs rainfall shocks during mother …

Background: In the current era, malnutrition among children considers main reason of morbidity and mortality in the … world scenario while more specifically in developing countries. Malnutrition in children severely affects their physical … growth and academic achievements. This study aimed to find out the effect of socioeconomic factors on malnutrition, children …

years of stunting's evolution among South African children, adolescents, and young adults aged 0-19, with particular … attention to how the prevalence of under-nutrition differs between urban and rural areas and how the drivers of poor nutrition …. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …

poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under five. Furthermore, we analyze differences between nutrition outcomes of … children between rural and peri-urban areas. We apply ordinary least squares, two stage least squares and quantile regression …