In 2015, based on the latest survey of the Food Nutrition Research Institute, childhood stunting affected one-third (33 …%) of children under five years. This is equivalent to 3.78 million children in 2015. Moreover, there has been little …-effective interventions to address the situation are known and regularly updated. Assessments of specific nutrition projects have uncovered …

of early life conditions, however, suggests that the effects on children may be important as well. Using large spatio …-temporal variations in rice prices in the Philippines as a natural experiment, the study estimates the effect of increasing food prices on … labor force participation among mothers. Results highlight that even food producers may not be insulated against food price …

establish whether this is causal, or whether it arises because mothers who breastfeed tend to be those whose children would do …This paper uses Propensity Score Matching to investigate the causal effect of breastfeeding on children's cognitive … only children's health, but also their cognitive skills. -- Breastfeeding ; Cognitive Outcomes ; Child Development ; ALSPAC …

Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in … increases in household food consumption, particularly of protein-rich foods by children. The increased household consumption is …