  Health and nutritionHealth and nutrition are extremely important factors in shaping economic outcomes and fostering economic development. They form a key mechanism in improving the quality of life in less developed countries. EDePo research in this area has sought to provide evidence on two broad questions. First, what factors drive household decisions relating to health and nutritional investments? Second, what are the causal effects of health and nutrition on economic outcomes such as educational attainment and labour market success? Researchers at EDePo are involved in the evaluation of projects such as a community nursery programme that provides nutrition and child care in Colombia, a Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme that provides cash transfers to poor households provided that they meet conditions relating to investments in education and health of children in Kazakhstan, a sanitation intervention in India, an early childhood development programme in Colombia, and an infant feeding counselling intervention in Malawi. 
Incorrect knowledge of the health production function may lead to inefficient household choices, and thereby to the production of suboptimal levels of health. This paper studies the effects of a randomised intervention in rural Malawi which, over a six-month period, provided mothers of young infants with information on child nutrition without supplying any monetary or in-kind resources.
This presentation was given at the Centre for Study of African Economies Conference in Oxford on 18-20 March 2012 and the Royal Economic Society Annual Conference in Cambridge on 26-28 March 2012.
FINISH - Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health.
FINISH - Financial Inclusion Improves Sanitation and Health - is a joint undertaking of a wide range of actors that came together to address the challenges of micro finance, insurance and sanitation and health.
Grant Miller, Diana Pinto and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
Despite current emphasis on health insurance expansions in developing countries, inefficient consumer incentives for over-use of medical care are an important counterbalancing concern.
The period from 2003 to the summer of 2008 saw significant and sustained increases in global food prices, especially for staple goods such as maize, rice and wheat.
This is an update in February 2010 on the progress of the FINISH project in India.
This presentation was given at an internal seminar on the Early Childhood Development project in Colombia.
Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin and Alice Mesnard
We study food Engel curves among the poor population targeted by a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia.
This presentation looks at the practicalities of collecting data in a developing country using electronic equipment.
Alice Mesnard and Paul Seabright
This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state disease prevalence.
Orazio Attanasio, Erich Battistin, Emla Fitzsimons, Costas Meghir, Alice Mesnard, Marcos Vera-Hernandez, et al.
This report, in Spanish, evaluates the first wave of the survey, Familias en Acción.
Orazio Attanasio, Luis Carlos Gómez, Patricia Heredia and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
We provide estimates of how the programme has influenced nutrition and health-related indicators for children in the short term, roughly one year after its implementation.
This lecture focuses on Familias en Accion, a conditional cash transfer programme in Colombia, evaluating its effects and results in relation to education, health and nutrition.
Orazio Attanasio, Luis Carlos Gomez, Ana Gomez Rojas and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
We study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombian children living in small municipalities.
Datasets from the baseline survey and two follow-up surveys are available.
Orazio Attanasio, Luiz Carlos Gomez, Ana Gomez and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
In this paper we study the determinants of child anthropometrics on a sample of poor Colombianchildren living in small municipalities.
Orazio Attanasio, Murtaza Syed and Marcos Vera-Hernandez
This note outlines the preliminary findings of the evaluation of a welfare programme in Colombia, Familias en Accíon. The programme aims to foster nutritional and educational development for the children of poor families in rural and urban communities, and the evaluation will use data collected from treatment and control areas to discover what methods are effective and how they work. In this note, we describe what the data show about the population and what the preliminary findings indicate about the efficacy of the programme.
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