hygiene (WASH) practices make nutrition intake more productive for children aged 6-24 months. Using cohort data, with detailed … information on nutrition intake and WASH investments, and a control function approach to account for endogeneity of inputs, we … that this is not driven by differential parental invest-ments by child gender. Although the study sample are children born …

early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … on mother fixed effects to allow for household and mother unobserved heterogeneity. Furthermore, this paper explores the … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers …

children, and generate higher household earnings streams long after the cash transfers expire. …We evaluate an intervention targeting early life nutrition and well-being for households in extreme poverty in Northern … Nigeria. The intervention leads to large and sustained improvements in children's anthropometric and health outcomes …

This paper studies the impact of climate change on the nutritional status of very young children between the ages of 0 … - 3 years by using weather data from the last half century merged with rich information on child, mother and household …-linear forms, we find that extreme heat and humidity in the month of birth exert significant negative effects on children …

consumption smooth over time or relative to other members of the household. We use data on adult nutrition in Ethiopia to …Much of the literature on consumption smoothing and on risk sharing has focused on the ability of the household as a … unit to protect its consumption. Little is known about the ability of individual members of the household to keep …

Indonesians children. I use a long term panel data set and apply a maternal fixed effect plus an instrumental variables estimator …

exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …

to higher household incomes and food availability and better health for infant girls. We present suggestive evidence that …

and various local economic and environmental factors. Nutritional mobility has improved over time, and the nutrition … nutrition improvement across generations …

exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …