Program participation intensity and children's nutritional status: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique

Agricultural interventions are thought to have the potential to improve nutrition, but very little rigorous evidence is available about programs that link the two. In this paper, we study the nutritional impacts of Reaching End Users, a biofortification project in Mozambique that had integrated agri...

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Autores principales: de Brauw, Alan, Eozenou, Patrick, Moursi, Mourad
Formato: Informe técnico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150022
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Eozenou, Patrick
Moursi, Mourad
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description Agricultural interventions are thought to have the potential to improve nutrition, but very little rigorous evidence is available about programs that link the two. In this paper, we study the nutritional impacts of Reaching End Users, a biofortification project in Mozambique that had integrated agricultural and nutritional components. We provide evidence on the dietary impacts of the program, but more importantly we study the impacts of the program by participation intensity. Using ordinary least squares and instrumental variables techniques, we find that more intense participation in both the agricultural and the nutritional components led to larger impacts. Therefore, the results could have important implications for refining the design of future projects that attempt to link agricultural and nutritional interventions.
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spelling CGSpace1500222025-11-06T07:50:05Z Program participation intensity and children's nutritional status: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique de Brauw, Alan Eozenou, Patrick Moursi, Mourad nutritional status data analysis biofortification randomized controlled trial agriculture least squares method nutrition diet Agricultural interventions are thought to have the potential to improve nutrition, but very little rigorous evidence is available about programs that link the two. In this paper, we study the nutritional impacts of Reaching End Users, a biofortification project in Mozambique that had integrated agricultural and nutritional components. We provide evidence on the dietary impacts of the program, but more importantly we study the impacts of the program by participation intensity. Using ordinary least squares and instrumental variables techniques, we find that more intense participation in both the agricultural and the nutritional components led to larger impacts. Therefore, the results could have important implications for refining the design of future projects that attempt to link agricultural and nutritional interventions. 2015-04-14 2024-08-01T02:50:29Z 2024-08-01T02:50:29Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150022 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute de Brauw, Alan; Eozenou, Patrick and Moursi, Mourad. 2015. Program participation intensity and children's nutritional status: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique. HarvestPlus Working Paper 16. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150022
spellingShingle nutritional status
data analysis
biofortification
randomized controlled trial
agriculture
least squares method
nutrition
diet
de Brauw, Alan
Eozenou, Patrick
Moursi, Mourad
Program participation intensity and children's nutritional status: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique
title Program participation intensity and children's nutritional status: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique
title_full Program participation intensity and children's nutritional status: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique
title_fullStr Program participation intensity and children's nutritional status: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique
title_full_unstemmed Program participation intensity and children's nutritional status: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique
title_short Program participation intensity and children's nutritional status: Evidence from a randomized control trial in Mozambique
title_sort program participation intensity and children s nutritional status evidence from a randomized control trial in mozambique
topic nutritional status
data analysis
biofortification
randomized controlled trial
agriculture
least squares method
nutrition
diet
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150022
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