The past decade has seen an unprecedented increase in attention to undernutrition, and
drastically reducing child stunting has become a global development objective. The strong …

In 2005 a large earthquake struck northern Pakistan. Exposure to the earthquake was
plausibly exogenous to household and individual characteristics, and households received …

This article looks at both nutrition and early childhood stimulation interventions as part of an
integrated life cycle approach to development. We build on recent systematic reviews of …

In 2014, according to UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank, 171 million children under the age
of five were stunted. Loosely-speaking this means they were excessively short for their age …

We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and
associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact of the …

Objective: This work aims to demonstrate an original approach to identify links between
locally situated shared values and contextual factors of stunting. Stunting results from multi …

Body height often serves as a proxy for economic progress. In this paper, we investigate the
evolution of average height and height dispersion in Poland based on full administrative …

In recent years there has been much interest in investigating the extent to which social status
or prestige are related to an individual's degree of integration in social networks. It has been …

A growing literature identifies associations between subjective and biometric indicators of
wellbeing. These associations, together with the ability of subjective wellbeing metrics to …

This paper undertakes two calculations, one for all develo** countries, the other for 34
develo** countries that together account for 90 percent of the world's stunted children. The …