Nutrition information and formal schooling as inputs to child nutrition

Economic Development and Cultural Change

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 801-820

  Webb, Patrick ^a   Block, Steven ^b  

^a World Food Programme   (Italy)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE; MOTHERS EDUCATION; NUTRITION;

EID: 3543108228     PISSN: 00130079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/420901     Document Type: Article

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