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The Role of Information and Cash Transfers on Early Childhood Development : Evidence from Nepal

Acharya, Gayatri; Bharadwaj, Prashant; Levere, Michael - 2016

Although substantial progress has been made in combating malnutrition at the global level, chronic maternal and child malnutrition remains a serious problem in many parts of the developing world. This paper, using a randomized control trial design in Nepal, evaluates a program that provided...

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Does Mass Deworming Affect Child Nutrition? : Meta-Analysis, Cost-Effectiveness, and Statistical Power

Croke, Kevin; Hicks, Joan Hamory; Hsu, Eric; Kremer, Michael - 2016

The WHO has recently debated whether to reaffirm its long-standing recommendation of mass drug administration (MDA) in areas with more than 20 percent prevalence of soil-transmitted helminths (hookworm, whipworm, and roundworm). There is consensus that the relevant deworming drugs are safe and...

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Children Left Behind in China : The Role of School Fees

Dang, Hai-Anh; Huang, Yang; Selod, Harris - 2016

The barriers faced by Chinese rural-urban migrants to access social services, particularly education, in host cities could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical framework that allows for an explicit discussion of the...

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Does Debt Relief Improve Child Health? : Evidence from Cross-Country Micro Data

Welander, Anna - 2016

This paper analyzes the effects of a multilateral debt relief program on child health. The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank launched the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative in the late 1990s to reduce the debt burdens of poor countries, and explicitly linked the initiative...

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New Estimates of Extreme Poverty for Children

Evans, Martin C.; Newhouse, David Locke; Suárez … - 2016

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of children under age 18 years, 19.5 percent are...

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When the Cat's Away : The Effects of Spousal Migration on Investments on Children

Lucia, Rizzica; Rizzicas, Lucia - 2016

Household expenditures for children-related goods may change when one of the parent migrates and do so differently depending on whether it is the mother or the father that leaves. A sequential model that explains migration and budget allocation choices is proposed and its predictions are tested...

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Synergies in Child Nutrition : Interactions of Food Security, Health and Environment, and Child Care

Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2016

environment -- on their own and interactively are correlated with nutrition outcomes, such as height-for-age z-scores. Based on …

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Inequality of Opportunity in Early Childhood Development in Morocco over Time

Abdelkhalek, Touhami; Bassett, Lucy; Benkassmi, Mohamed; … - 2016

Early childhood development is a critical, but often neglected, phase of human development. Shortfalls in early … childhood development have historically been a challenge in Morocco, with children facing unequal opportunities to develop … Morocco by focusing on the state of early childhood development, inequality in early childhood development, and trends over …

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Going Beyond the First Child : Analysis of Russian Mothers' Desired and Actual Fertility Patterns

Aritomi, Tami; Besedina, Elena; Levin, Victoria - 2016

The Russian Federation's population has been declining since 1992, but recently the decline appears to be over. Although fertility has risen since the 2007 introduction of the family policy package, which focused on stimulating second and higher-order births, total fertility rates still remain...

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Long-Term Impacts of an Unanticipated Risk Event : The 2007/08 Food Price Crisis and Child Growth in Indonesia

Larson, Donald F.; Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2016

evidence of both effects. Based on standardized height and weight measures, the results indicate that soaring food prices had a …

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