This book presents a method to estimate the economic returns to investments in school
quality. While economists have long had methods to estimate rates of return to additional …

A bivariate analysis of infant mortality in the 1986/87 Ondo State Demographic and Health
Survey data indicates that children of secondary school graduates experienced a higher rate …

This study examines determinants of growth from birth to 24 months in a sample of
approximately 3000 urban and rural Filipino children. Individual, household, and community …

Objectives: Early childhood malnutrition is a pressing international concern which dietary
diversity scores (summary scores of food groups in the diet) may be helpful in addressing …

Objetivo Separar y analizar los efectos de los factores biológicos, ambientales,
socioeconómicos, de atención médica y servicios de salud; y su probabilidad de generar …

The concepts of endogeneity and unobserved heterogeneity are well-known among
econometricians. However, these issues are rarely addressed in epidemiologic studies. This …

Deficient birth outcomes entail greater mortality risks and higher probabilities of poor future
health. This study examines the effect of the World Health Organization's prenatal care …

Objectives. We examined the association between 2 important public health problems in the
developing world: parental domestic violence and depressive symptoms during …

Objective: To examine factors associated with the physical growth of breast-fed Ghanaian
infants during the first 18 months of life. Design: A community-based longitudinal study …

The principal aim of this paper is to describe the socio-economic context in which the topic of
processed complementary feeding in Latin America should be examined. Data from CEPAL …