Conference Programme

Concise Programme

THURSDAY 7^THSEPTEMBER

FRIDAY 8^THSEPTEMBER

The full programme booklet can be downloaded here.

Chair: Noel Cameron

Linda Adair, University of North Carolina, Stunting in a changing world: Under-nutrition and the dual burden of stunting and overweight
Derek Headey, The International Food Policy Research Institute, The age dynamics of growth faltering among pre-school children: Evidence from 57 developing countries
Eric Schneider, LSE, Child growth in the long run: New evidence from the UK and Japan

Session 1a (OLD 323)

Chair: Catherine Porter

Lucie Moore, Oxford Policy Management Ltd, The impact of unconditional cash transfers and behaviour change communication on infant well-being
- Discussant: Zewdie Aderaw
Sarah Baird, George Washington University, When the money runs out: Do cash transfers have sustained effects on human capital accumulation?
- Discussant: Bansi Malde
Kota Ogasawara, Chiba University, Persistence of natural disaster on children’s growth: The Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan, 1923
- Discussant: Stephen Morgan

Session 1b (OLD 321)

Chair: Purnima Menon

Evan Roberts, University of Minnesota, Growth faltering in the United States, 1912-2014
- Discussant: Elisabetta Aurino
Harold Alderman, The International Food Policy Research Institute, The timing of growth faltering: Implications for observational analyses of the underlying determinants of nutrition outcomes
- Discussant: Cara Flowers
Deborah Oxley, University of Oxford, Toddlers, teenagers and terminal heights: The determinants of adult male stature, Flanders 1800-76
- Discussant: Bill Kinsey

Session 2a (OLD 323)

Chair: Kris Inwood

Anastasia Aladysheva, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Child health and intra-household bargaining: Evidence from a new panel study in Kyrgyzstan
- Discussant: Deborah Oxley
Illana Seff, Columbia University Dynamics of Child Malnutrition in Ethiopia
- Discussant: Giacomo Mason
Tim Hatton, University of Essex, Atmospheric pollution and child health in late-Nineteenth Century Britain
- Discussant: Catherine Porter

Session 2b (OLD 321)

Chair: Stuart Gillespie

Phuong Hong Nguyen, International Food Policy Research Institute, Understanding the burden of stunting in India: A regression-decomposition analysis of district level data from the 2015-2016 National Family Health Survey
- Discussant: Henry Doctor
Joseph Cummins, University of California, Riverside, Age-profile estimates of the relationship between economic growth and child health
- Discussant: Berk Özler
Katherine Richards, Save the Children UK, Unequal portions
- Discussant: Hamish Maxwell-Stuart

Session 3a (OLD 323)

Chair: Deborah Oxley

Andreas Georgiadis, Brunel University, London, Maternal under-nutrition and childbearing in adolescence and offspring growth and development in low- and middle- income countries: Is adolescence a critical window for interventions against stunting?
- Discussant: Matthias Blum
Kris Inwood, University of Guelph, The growth of adolescents in the British Dominions, 1840- 1920
- Discussant: Noel Cameron
Tim Cole, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, Fifty years of child height and weight in Japan and South Korea: Contrasting secular trend patterns analyzed by SITAR
- Discussant: Ewout Depauw

Session 3b (OLD 321)

Chair: Stephen Morgan

Bill Kinsey, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, Stunting in sub-Saharan Africa: Why ‘nutrition-sensitive’ interventions have had so little impact
- Discussant: Jody Harris
Emmanuela Galasso, The World Bank, Tackling stunting and promoting child development through integrated interventions in Madagascar
- Discussant: Alexis le Nestour
Alessandro Tarozzi, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Food for thought? Results from a large-scale rice fortification project through the midday meal scheme in Odisha, India
- Discussant: Akib Khan

Session 4a (OLD 323)

Chair: Hamish Maxwell-Stuart

Andrew Prentice, London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine, Stunting in rural West Africa: Trends, drivers and possible solutions
- Discussant: Stuart Gillespie
Bansi Malde, University of Kent, The interaction between nutrition and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) in determining child height
- Discussant: Catherine Porter

Session 4b (OLD 321)

Chair: Jody Harris

Aryeh Stein, Emory University, Growth failure, overweight, and adult health: Evidence from cohorts in low and middle-income countries
- Discussant: Purnima Menon
Matthias Blum, Queen’s University, Belfast, Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
- Discussant: Tharshini Thangavelu

OLD 321

Chair: Purnima Menon

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