Composition of Household Income and Child Nutrition Outcomes Evidence from Uganda

Household resources, household composition, and child nutritional outcomes

In many developing countries the composition of rural households is influenced by the migration of adult household members to urban locations in search of employment. Children may be left in the care of their mother alone, or in the care of grandparents when both parents have migrated. Using representative data from rural Northeast Thailand, this paper investigates whether household composition...

The Impact of Child SSI Enrollment on Household Outcomes: Evidence from the Survey of Income and Program Participation

Early Intervention and Caregiving: Evidence from the Uganda Nutrition and Early Child Development Program

It was hypothesized that the World Bank assisted project on Nutrition and Early Child Development in Uganda would have an impact on parenting behaviors and attitudes about child development. This large-scale World Bank-assisted program operated in 35 districts during the period from 2000 to 2003. An experimental pre-post comparison group design (N=2250 families) was used to compare behaviors an...

Household shocks, child labor, and child schooling: evidence from Guatemala.

Using data from the National Survey of Standards of Living conducted in Guatemala in 2000, this article tests the hypothesis that Guatemalan households use child labor and reduce child schooling to cope with household shocks. First, the authors use factor analysis to estimate the latent household propensity to natural disasters and socioeconomic shocks. Then, they estimate bivariate probit mode...

Household Energy Expenditure and Income Groups: Evidence from Great Britain

Household energy use is increasingly important in the context of fuel poverty and the equity debate as well as in relation to energy saving and efficiency policies. We first explore the link between household energy spending and income. We use a panel dataset from a comprehensive survey of UK households from 1991 to 2007 comprising over 77,000 observations to analyse electricity, gas, and overa...