Child stunting: lessons from global history
Child stunting, being too short for one’s age, is widely seen as a problem of today’s poorer countries. A systematic review of data from 122 countries since the 19th century … Read more
Eric Schneider
London School of Economics, UK and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, UK. • Personal webpage • E.B.Schneider(at)lse.ac.uk
Can stunted children recover after the first 1,000 days?
The food shortages during the Second World War in Japan had adverse consequences for child growth. However, Eric Schneider argues that the age and cohort pattern of the war shock … Read more