Publisher Summary This chapter reviews recent advances in the empirical literature on the
role that households and families play in investing in human resources. It describes the …

The authors reviewed the evidence regarding the impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT)
programmes on child nutrition outcomes, using a programme theory framework. They …

Poverty and ill-health are intertwined. Poor countries tend to have worse health outcomes
than better-off countries. Within countries, poor people have worse health outcomes than …

Mother's education is often found to be positively correlated with child health and nutrition in
developing countries, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. Three possible …

Too often, services fail poor people—in access, in quality, and in affordability. But the fact
that there are striking examples where basic services such as water, sanitation, health …

Undernutrition in infancy and early childhood is thought to adversely affect cognitive
development, although evidence of lasting effects is not well established. With the use of …

Care is the provision in the household and the community of time, attention, and support to
meet the physical, mental, and social needs of the growing child and other household …

We investigate the impact of a large-scale Mexican program to replace dirt floors with
cement floors on child health and adult happiness. We find that replacing dirt floors with …

Background Sub-Saharan Africa is facing rapidly increasing prevalences of cardiovascular
disease, obesity, diabetes and hypertension. Previous and ongoing undernutrition among …

A uniform analytical methodology was applied to survey data from 17 developing countries
with the aim of addressing a series of questions regarding the positive statistical association …