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, riboflavin, thiamin, and vitamins A, C, D, and E 100 of Kenyan school children (6-9 years) within a multivariate longitudinal … framework. The explanatory variables were socioeconomic and background variables, children's body mass index, and maternal … controlling for unobserved between-children differences. The main finding is that while maternal education was usually not a …
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Hundreds of millions of children in less developed countries suffer from poor health and nutrition. Children in most … in developed countries. Recent research has shown that poor health and nutrition among children reduces their time in … less developed countries also complete far fewer years of schooling, and learn less per year of schooling, than do children …
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Ample empirical evidence links adverse conditions during early childhood (the period from conception to age five) to worse health outcomes and lower academic achievement in adulthood. Can early-life medical care and public health interventions ameliorate these effects? Recent research suggests...
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providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are … supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise mothers on health and nutrition for their child. Our one-day caregiver … training covered basic health and nutrition facts with advice on how to communicate with mothers for behavior change at home …
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providing mothers information to improve nutrition of preschool children aged 2-6 in rural India. Salaried caregivers are … supposed to provide a mid-day meal and also advise mothers on health and nutrition for their child. Our one-day caregiver … training covered basic health and nutrition facts with advice on how to communicate with mothers for behavior change at home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581671
In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …
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during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …
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attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population … children have 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood. Second, these children are less likely to go to college or …
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attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population … children have 0.4 fewer years of schooling on average in adulthood. Second, these children are less likely to go to college or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122121
In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade …-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects … schooling progress, the expected college enrollment, grades in school and the assessed health of all children in the family. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780424