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treated persons. We estimate the impact of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition outcomes using longitudinal … household survey data collected in collaboration with a treatment program in western Kenya. We find that children's weekly hours … improvements. Since the improvements in children's schooling and nutrition at these critical early ages will affect their socio …
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Kenya's specific needs. The paper considers high-impact nutrition-specific interventions that largely rely on typical health …This paper builds on global experience and Kenya's specific context to identify an effective approach to scaling up … nutrition and provide an estimate of costs and benefits of key nutrition interventions. It is intended to help guide the …
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. Here, we analyze effects of supermarkets on child nutrition with panel data from medium-sized towns in Kenya. Instrumental …. Supermarkets do not seem to be a driver of childhood obesity in Kenya. The positive effects of supermarkets on child nutrition are … to be a major nutrition problem in developing countries that is declining more slowly than child underweight …
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of ARV treatment on children's schooling and nutrition. They find that children's weekly hours of school attendance …'s short-term nutritional status also improves dramatically. Since the improvements in children's schooling and nutrition at … HIV/AIDS, yet little is known about the impact of this intervention on the welfare of children whose parents receive …
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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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This thesis addresses 3 different aspects of food and poverty related problems in developing countries. The first essay presents a new operational concept of transaction costs that firstly allows assessing the magnitude and secondly recognizing the non homogeneity of food products. This is...
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facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but research on such types of effects remains … scarce. In this study we analyze whether mobile phones improve dietary quality of pastoralists in Northern Kenya. We use six …
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