IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Does early nutrition predict cognitive skills during later childhood? Evidence from two developing countries' in: World Development, 2024, 176, 106480

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15544

Prenatal Sugar Consumption and Late-Life Human Capital and Health: Analyses Based on Postwar Rationing and Polygenic Scores

Gerard J. van den Berg, Stephanie von Hinke, R. Adele H. Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15490

The Effect of Health Insurance on Child Nutritional Outcomes. Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Peru

Noelia Bernal, Joan Costa-Font, Patricia Ritter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14443

Bombing and the Two Vietnams

Vu Vuong, Simon Chang, Michael Palmer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14273

Job Loss and Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stefani Milovanska-Farrington

published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2023, 50 (2), 300-323

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14054

Experimental Evidence from an Integrated Early Childhood Parenting Program in Sierra Leone

Anjali Chandra, Subha Mani, Heather Dolphin, Meredith Dyson, Yembeh Marah

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13955

The Impacts of a Multifaceted Pre-natal Intervention on Human Capital Accumulation in Early Life

Pedro Carneiro, Lucy Kraftman, Giacomo Mason, Lucie Moore, Imran Rasul, Molly Scott

published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (8), 2506–4259)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13888

Social Disadvantage and Children's Nutritional Status in Rural-Urban Migrant Households

Carl Lin, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

published in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2019, 28 (120), 899-915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13171

Echo Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks: The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward Famine in China

Jinhu Li, Nidhiya Menon

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12677

Weight Gains from Trade in Foods: Evidence from Mexico

Osea Giuntella, Matthias Rieger, Lorenzo Rotunno

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2020, 122, 103277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12665

Is Consanguinity an Impediment to Child Development Outcomes?

Cem Mete, Laurent Bossavie, John T. Giles, Harold Alderman

published in: Population Studies, June 2020, 74 (2): 139-159.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12489

Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India

Marcello Perez-Alvarez, Marta Favara

published in: Journal Population Econonmics, 2023, 36, 1573–1606

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12288

Neonatal Death in India: Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition

Diane Coffey, Dean Spears

published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (638), 2478 - 2507

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12196

Do Constraints on Women Worsen Child Deprivations? Framework, Measurement, and Evidence from India

Alberto Posso, Stephen C. Smith, Lucia Ferrone

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11986

Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from China

Carl Lin, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers

published in: Research in Labor Economics (Health and Labor Markets), 2019, 47, 281-310

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11588

Nutrition in Interwar Britain: A Possible Resolution of the Healthy or Hungry 1930s Debate?

Ian Gazeley, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

published as 'How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?' in: Economic History Review, 2022, 75 (1), 80 - 110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11412

Estimating the Associations between SNAP and Food Insecurity, Obesity, and Food Purchases with Imperfect Administrative Measures of Participation

Charles Courtemanche, Augustine Denteh, Rusty Tchernis

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2019, 86 (1), 202 228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11234

Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform

Jesper Alex-Petersen, Petter Lundborg, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2022, 89 (2), 876-908

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11037

Escaping from Hunger before WW1: Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century

Ian Gazeley, Rose Holmes, Andrew T. Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos

published online in: Cliometrica, 25 November 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11008

Spatial Differences in Stunting and Household Agricultural Production in South Africa: (Re-)Examining the Links Using National Panel Survey Data

Steffen Otterbach, Michael Rogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11008

Spatial Differences in Stunting and Household Agricultural Production in South Africa: (Re-)Examining the Links Using National Panel Survey Data

Steffen Otterbach, Michael Rogan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10662

Costly Posturing: Ceremonies and Early Child Development in China

Xi Chen, Xiaobo Zhang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10375

Behavior Change for Early Childhood Nutrition: Effectiveness of Health Worker Training Depends on Maternal Information in a Randomized Control Trial

Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10085

Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information

Prakarsh Singh

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 911 - 931

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10084

Performance Pay and Malnutrition

Prakarsh Singh, Sandip Mitra

published as 'Incentives, Information and Malnutrition: Evidence from an experiment in India' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 93, 24-46.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10083

Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India

Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 219 - 231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10083

Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India

Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 219 - 231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10083

Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health: Evidence from an Experiment with Anganwadi Workers in India

Prakarsh Singh, William A. Masters

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 55, 219 - 231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10021

Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China

Janneke Pieters, Samantha Rawlings

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2019, 18(1), 207-237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9893

Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five: A Decompositional Analysis

Peng Nie, Anu Rammohan, Wencke Gwozdz, Alfonso Sousa-Poza

published as 'Changes in Child Nutrition in India: A Decomposition Approach' in: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, 16 (10), 1815

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9781

Does Greater Autonomy among Women Provide the Key to Better Child Nutrition?

Wiji Arulampalam, Anjor Bhaskar, Nisha Srivastava

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9424

Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools

Michèle Belot, Jonathan James, Patrick J. Nolen

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 213-229

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9328

Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Jane Greve, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Erdal Tekin

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 60, 20 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9093

The Long-term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition: Evidence from the 1959-1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine

Seonghoon Kim, Belton M. Fleisher, Jessica Ya Sun

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (10), 1264 - 1277

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8967

Economic Development, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism

Davide Dragone, Nicolas R. Ziebarth

published as 'Non-Separable Time Preferences, Novelty Consumption, and Body Weight: Theory and Evidence from the East German Transition to Capitalism' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 51, 41-65.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8721

Protecting Child Nutritional Status in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia

John T. Giles, Elan Satriawan

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 114, 97 -106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8673

Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Erdal Tekin, Jane Greve

published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 21, 196–209

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7999

A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting

Gerard J. van den Berg, Pia Pinger

revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 103-120