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School Meals as a Safety Net: An Evaluation of the Midday Meal Scheme in India

Dercon, Stefan; Park, Albert; Singh, Abhijeet - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Despite the popularity of school meals, little evidence exists on their effect on health outcomes. This study uses newly available longitudinal data from the state of Andhra Pradesh in India to estimate the impact of the introduction of a national midday meal program on anthropometric z-scores...

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Undernutrition and Psychosocial Competencies: Evidence from Four Countries

Dercon, Stefan; Sánchez, Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Both cognitive and non-cognitive skills matter to understand a child's opportunities and outcomes in adulthood. However, it is unclear how non-cognitive skills are acquired and what the role played by household investments is in this process. Motivated by suggestions from the medical literature...

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Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children

Dercon, Stefan; Porter, Catherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it one of the worst in recent history. The mortality impacts are clearly signicant. But what of the survivors? This paper provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the...

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Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Sex-Specific Earnings on Sex Imbalance

Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Economists long have argued that the severe sex imbalance that exists in many developing countries is caused by underlying economic conditions. This paper uses plausibly exogenous increases in sex-specific agricultural income caused by post-Mao reforms in China to estimate the effects of total...

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Gender Discrimination: The Role of Males and Per Capita Income

Rahim, Fazeer; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development … fertility, and higher income. We use data from the World Value Survey and the International Social Survey Program and show that …

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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India

Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …

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Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty

Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper develops a theory of fertility and child educational choice that offers an explanation for the persistence … human capital. As a result, the poor choose high fertility rates with low education investment and therefore, their … offspring are poor as well. Furthermore, the high fertility rates in poor economies dilute physical capital accumulation and …

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Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This research advances an evolutionary growth theory that captures the pattern of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the sources of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory suggests that social, economic and...

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Health, Height and the Household at the Turn of the 20th Century

Bailey, Roy E; Hatton, Timothy J.; Inwood, Kris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of the First World War. We take a sample of the army service records and use this information to find the recruits as children in the 1901 census. Econometric results indicate that...

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

Modin, Bitte; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

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