Household responses to information on child nutrition: experimental evidence from Malawi

Published on 11 April 2012

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 working paper has been updated to a new version, W14/02, which can be downloaded here.

Authors

Emla Fitzsimons

Emla Fitzsimons

Research Fellow University College London

Emla Fitzsimons is a Professor of Economics at the University College London Institute of Education and a Research Fellow at the IFS.

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Alice Mesnard

Marcos Vera Hernandez

Marcos Vera-Hernandez

Research Fellow University College London

Marcos is a Research Fellow at IFS, an Affiliate at the Rural Education Action Program and a Professor of Economics at the University College London.

Bansi Malde

Research Fellow University of Kent

Bansi is a Research Fellow of the IFS, a Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of Kent and also a Fellow at the Global Labor Organisation.