Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets
Chronic undernutrition in Ethiopia is widespread and many children consume highly monotonous diets. To improve feeding practices in Ethiopia, a strong focus in nutrition programing has been placed on improving the nutrition knowledge of caregivers. In this paper, we study the impact of caregivers' n...
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| author | Hirvonen, Kalle Hoddinott, John F. Minten, Bart Stifel, David |
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| description | Chronic undernutrition in Ethiopia is widespread and many children consume highly monotonous diets. To improve feeding practices in Ethiopia, a strong focus in nutrition programing has been placed on improving the nutrition knowledge of caregivers. In this paper, we study the impact of caregivers' nutrition knowledge and its complementarity with market access. To test whether the effect of nutrition knowledge on children’s dietary diversity depends on market access, we use survey data from an area with a large variation in transportation costs over a relatively short distance. This allows us to carefully assess the impact of nutrition knowledge with varying access to markets, but still within similar agro-climatic conditions. Using an Instrumental Variable approach, we find that better nutrition knowledge leads to considerable improvements in children’s dietary diversity, but only in areas with relatively good market access. Our findings suggest that policymakers and program implementers need to ensure that efforts to improve nutrition knowledge are complemented by efforts to improve access to food. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1464682025-02-24T21:19:54Z Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets Hirvonen, Kalle Hoddinott, John F. Minten, Bart Stifel, David education surveys health nutrition education malnutrition market access nutrition diet dietary diversity Chronic undernutrition in Ethiopia is widespread and many children consume highly monotonous diets. To improve feeding practices in Ethiopia, a strong focus in nutrition programing has been placed on improving the nutrition knowledge of caregivers. In this paper, we study the impact of caregivers' nutrition knowledge and its complementarity with market access. To test whether the effect of nutrition knowledge on children’s dietary diversity depends on market access, we use survey data from an area with a large variation in transportation costs over a relatively short distance. This allows us to carefully assess the impact of nutrition knowledge with varying access to markets, but still within similar agro-climatic conditions. Using an Instrumental Variable approach, we find that better nutrition knowledge leads to considerable improvements in children’s dietary diversity, but only in areas with relatively good market access. Our findings suggest that policymakers and program implementers need to ensure that efforts to improve nutrition knowledge are complemented by efforts to improve access to food. 2017-07 2024-06-21T09:07:10Z 2024-06-21T09:07:10Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146468 en Open Access Elsevier Hirvonen, Kalle; Hoddinott, John F.; Minten, Bart; and Stifel, David. 2017. Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets. World Development 95(July 2017): 303-315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.02.031 |
| spellingShingle | education surveys health nutrition education malnutrition market access nutrition diet dietary diversity Hirvonen, Kalle Hoddinott, John F. Minten, Bart Stifel, David Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets |
| title | Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets |
| title_full | Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets |
| title_fullStr | Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets |
| title_short | Children’s diets, nutrition knowledge, and access to markets |
| title_sort | children s diets nutrition knowledge and access to markets |
| topic | education surveys health nutrition education malnutrition market access nutrition diet dietary diversity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146468 |
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