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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 95, Issue -, Pages 303-315Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.02.031
Keywords
dietary diversity; food markets; remoteness; Ethiopia
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- United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- International Growth Centre (IGC)
- Department for International Development (DfID) through Transform Nutrition Consortium
- Department for International Development (DFID) [201448] Funding Source: researchfish
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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. (C) 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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