Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel … prefer their payments only or partly in food. Higher food prices induce shifts in stated preferences towards in-kind …

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age … (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings … crop prices are positively associated with improved child stunting rates for children between ages 6 months and 5 years …

empowerment and peer effects. Interventions targeting child welfare through women's empowerment may generate second-order effects …

, assessments of children before school age, conducted in a nation's official language, may not fully reflect a child's development … also found that parental Luo literacy at baseline was associated with child English vocabulary at follow-up, while parental …

asked to rank their child's intelligence in comparison with other children in the community, and the rankings were compared … caregivers' under- and over-estimation of child development using multinomial logistic regressions. The study finds that … child nutritional status, caregivers with a greater belief in their influence on child intelligence, and higher …

individual welfare and particularly child nutrition status. This paper reviews the evidence on the effect of covariate shocks on … child nutrition status in low- and middle-income countries, the pathways through which the effect operates, and the … relationship between the timing of a child's exposure to a covariate shock and the effect on child nutrition status. The paper also …