Eggs versus chewable vitamins: Which intervention can increase nutrition and test scores in rural China?

China Economic Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 165-176

  Kleiman Weiner, Max ^a   Luo, Renfu ^b   Zhang, Linxiu ^b   Shi, Yaojiang ^c   Medina, Alexis ^d   Rozelle, Scott ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Education; Health; Nutrition; Primary school children; Rural China

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872005959     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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