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have contributed to this health problem. Using data from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES), this …
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This paper provides evidence on household responses to the relaxation of one barrier constraining adoption of health … Malawi which provides mothers with information on infant nutrition and health. It finds that the intervention results in … funded by increased father's labor supply, constituting evidence that changes in the perceived child health production …
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significantly positive impacts on hemoglobin levels and reduced the prevalence of anemia by 20 percent but these health gains did …
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We study the impact of a Canadian prenatal nutrition program on child health at birth. The objective of the "oeuf …
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Long-term follow-up of early childhood health interventions is important for human capital accumulation. We provide … experimental evidence on child health and human capital outcomes from the longer-term follow-up of a school-based nutrition …
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these health gains did not translate into significant impacts on cognitive performance, test scores, and school attendance … school-based health programs are cost-effective and scalable intervention to reduce anemia among school children in resource …
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This paper studies the performance of immigrants relative to natives, in terms of their health status, use of health … care services, lifestyles, and coverage of health expenditures. We base the analysis on international evidence that … identified a healthy immigrant effect, complemented by empirical research on the Portuguese National Health Survey. Furthermore …
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persistence and association of health capital assessments of first and second-generation migrants with that of their ancestral …Culture is an under-studied determinant of health production and seldom measured. This paper empirically examines the … persistence of health assessments. Culture persists, rather than fades, and further, appears to strengthen over generations. We …
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This paper investigates the effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for food insecurity. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) temporarily increased SNAP benefits. We use that increase as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of endogenous...
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We investigate whether food price subsidies affect household nutrition using a dramatic expansion of the availability of subsidized rice in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh in the early 2000's. Households in Chhattisgarh increased their consumption of pulses, animal-based protein, and produce...
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