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Anemia, diet, and cognitive development: Impact of health information on diet quality and child nutrition in rural India

Krämer, Marion; Kumar, Santosh; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2019

Lack of information about health risks may limit adoption of improved nutritional and healthy behavior. This paper studies the effect of nutrition information intervention on household dietary behavior, child health, and cognitive ability of children in rural India. Using experimental data and...

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Child-specific son preference, birth order and cognitive skills in early childhood

Ebert, Cara Luisa; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2019

We propose an innovative child-specific measure of son preference. It allows to explicitly address birth order and sex composition effects. We first establish that, when using this child-specific measure, son preference is more common among later born children and in families with fewer sons. We...

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Mothers' status, food price shock and child nutrition in Karnataka

Banerjee, Debosree; Klasen, Stephan - 2018

Women's empowerment is increasingly put forth as a mean to promote child development. However, little empirical research has evaluated the pathways of women empowerment leading to it. This paper uses a household survey conducted in Karnataka, South India to explore the impact of female status on...

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Encouraging parents to invest: A randomized trial with two simple interventions in early childhood

Ebert, Cara; Heesemann, Esther Luise; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2020

The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early disadvantages in health and mental development. We distribute...

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Use of Anthropometric Measures to Analyze How Sources of Water and Sanitation Affect Chidren’s Health in Nigeria

Adewara, Sunday Olabisi; Visser, Martine - 2011

We used 2008 DHS data sets to construct child height- and weight-for-age Z-scores and used regression analysis to … analyze the effects of different sources of drinking water and sanitation on child health outcomes in Nigeria. We also …. Our results show that both child height and weight Z-scores are positive and significantly related to access to borehole …

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Optimal Combinations of Income Tax and Subsidies for Education

Bjertnæs, Geir Haakon - 2001

Nielsen and Sørensen (1997) find that progressive taxation of labour income is optimal when capital income is taxed. This paper shows that their main result still holds when introducing endogenous choice of occupation, individuals with non- pecuniary preferences for one type of occupation, and...

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Commitment or concealment? Impacts and use of a portable saving device: Evidence from a field experiment in urban India

Steinert, Janina Isabel; Satish, Rucha Vasumati; Stips, … - 2020

We study the impact of a portable "soft" commitment device on the financial behavior of low-income slum dwellers in Maharashtra, India. 1525 individuals were randomly allocated to receiving either a zip purse and a lockbox (treatment arm) or a lockbox only (control arm). Based on self-reported...

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Impacts of double-fortified salt on anemia and cognition: Four-year follow-up evidence from a school-based nutrition intervention in India

von Grafenstein, Liza; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021

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 intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the...

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Pro-Poor Growth Using Non-Income Indicators: An Empirical Illustration for Colombia

Cardozo, Adriana; Grosse, Melanie - 2009

In this paper, we analyze how the distribution of selected non-income welfare indicators changed between 1997 and 2003 in Colombia. We use multidimensional propoor growth measurement techniques and create indices for assets, health, education, and subjective welfare using two alternative...

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Why does piped water not reduce diarrhea for children? Evidence from urban Yemen

Lechtenfeld, Tobias - 2012

This paper investigates why household connections to piped water supply can increase diarrheal diseases among under-5-year-old children. Using a unique mix of household data, microbiological test results and spatial information from urban Yemen it is possible to distinguish the adverse impacts...

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