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's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to … female household members improves 06 year old girls', though not boys', long-term nutrition as measured by height …Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …
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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 … vary spatially. The results of our random-effects logistic regressions on the nutritional impact of household agricultural …
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stunting's evolution among South African children and adolescents aged 0–19, with particular attention to how the prevalence of … stunting differs between urban (14.9%) and rural (19.6%) areas and how the drivers of poor nutrition vary spatially. The … results suggest that, conditional on household income, subsistence farming is associated with a lower probability of stunting …
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's relative control over household resources or intra-household bargaining power in rural Malawi, gauged by their access to … female household members improves 06 year old girls', though not boys', long-term nutrition as measured by height …Using data from the 1995 Malawi Financial Markets and Food Security Survey, this study seeks to discover if women …
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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 …This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health …
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monetary or in-kind resources. A simple model first investigates theoretically how nutrition and other household choices … show empirically that, in line with this model, the intervention improved child nutrition, household consumption and …Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the …
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that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption … the household. In examining the effect of migration, we pay considerable attention to motivating, developing and …
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certain health investments, including children's diets. Our results support the notion that traditional gender roles can …
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We present findings from an integrated early childhood parenting program on stunting and wasting in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Importantly, where half the communities were randomly assigned to receive the parenting program and the remaining half served as a control that received standard...
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