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Harold Alderman

International Food Policy Research Institute
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Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition

H Alderman, J Hoddinott, B Kinsey - Oxford economic papers, 2006 - academic.oup.com
This paper examines the impact of pre-school malnutrition on subsequent human capital
formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects—instrumental variables (MFE-IV) …

Strategies for reducing inequalities and improving developmental outcomes for young children in low-income and middle-income countries

PL Engle, LCH Fernald, H Alderman, J Behrman… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
This report is the second in a Series on early child development in low-income and middle-income
countries and assesses the effectiveness of early child development interventions, …

Unitary versus collective models of the household: is it time to shift the burden of proof?

H Alderman, PA Chiappori, L Haddad… - The World Bank …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
Most development objectives focus on the well-being of individuals. Policies are targeted to
increase the percentage of individuals who avoid poverty, who can read, who are free from …

[HTML][HTML] How important is parental education for child nutrition?

H Alderman, DD Headey - World development, 2017 - Elsevier
Existing evidence on the impacts of parental education on child nutrition is plagued by both
internal and external validity concerns. In this paper we try to address these concerns …

Nutrition-sensitive interventions and programmes: how can they help to accelerate progress in improving maternal and child nutrition?

MT Ruel, H Alderman - The lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Acceleration of progress in nutrition will require effective, large-scale nutrition-sensitive
programmes that address key underlying determinants of nutrition and enhance the coverage …

[BOOK][B] Intrahousehold resource allocation in developing countries: models, methods, and policy.

L Haddad, J Hoddinott, H Alderman - 1997 - cabidigitallibrary.org
A study is presented of how resources are allocated within households in developing countries
and why it matters from a policy perspective. The many social and cultural factors that …

[HTML][HTML] Do the poor insure?: a synthesis of the literature on risk and consumption in developing countries

H Alderman, CH Paxson - 1992 - books.google.com
Alderman and Paxson survey the literature on strategies for insuring consumption against
fluctuating income and examine evidence on how effective these strategies are. … Harold …

The economic rationale for investing in stunting reduction

J Hoddinott, H Alderman, JR Behrman… - Maternal & child …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This paper outlines the economic rationale for investments that reduce stunting. We present
a framework that illustrates the functional consequences of stunting in the 1000 days after …

School quality, school cost, and the public/private school choices of low-income households in Pakistan

H Alderman, PF Orazem, EM Paterno - Journal of Human resources, 2001 - JSTOR
Variation in school attributes, proximity, and fees across neighborhoods is used to identify
factors that affect whether poor households send their children to government school, private …

Child health and school enrollment: A longitudinal analysis

H Alderman, JR Behrman, V Lavy, R Menon - Journal of Human resources, 2001 - JSTOR
Better child health is widely thought to improve school performance, and therefore post-school
productivity. But most of the literature ignores that child health as well as child schooling …