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 Health and nutrition
Health 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.  The United Nations University (UNU/Merit) together with the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS, UK) is responsible for the evaluation of the programme interventions.
This project evaluates a cash transfer programme aimed at improving child health and development in Kazakhstan.
In this project we study alternative ways of preventing and controlling Malaria in different countries in sub-saharan Africa.
In this work, we investigate the causal effect of reproductive health on poverty-related indicators and networks in Malawi.
We describe the structure of consumption of households in Mexico where large cash transfers have been made to women in households randomly selected from a poor population.
In this project, we study the effects of Hogares Comunitarios.
Familias en acción is a program very similar to the Mexican Progresa and consists of cash transfers conditional mainly on school attendance. Empleo en acción is a temporary employment program targeted at generating low skill employment. Jóvenes en acción is a program of job training (through courses and apprenticeship schemes) for young urban unemployed.
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