Conference Programme

Concise Programme

THURSDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER

    • 8:30-8:45am - Registration
    • 8.45-9.00am - Welcome and conference orientation
    • 9.00-11.00am - Plenary 1
    • 11.00-11.30am - Coffee
    • 11.30am-12.30pm - Keynote address: Subu Subramanian
    • 12.30-1.30pm - Lunch
    • 13.30-3.30pm - Session 1
    • 3.30-4pm - Coffee
    • 4.00-6.00pm - Session 2
    • 7.00-9.30pm - Drinks reception and conference dinner at Salaam Namaste


FRIDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER

    • 9.00-11.00am - Session 3
    • 11.00-11.30am - Coffee
    • 11.30am-12.30pm - Keynote address: John Hoddinott
    • 12.30-1.30pm - Lunch
    • 1.30-3.00pm - Session 4
    • 3.00-3.30pm - Coffee
    • 3.30-5.30pm - Plenary 2 – Policy
    • 5.30-6.00pm - Conference Closing Discussion
    • 7.30-9.30pm - Dinner (at participant’s expense)


The full programme booklet can be downloaded here.

Detailed Schedule

PLENARY 1: THURSDAY, 9-11AM

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 1: THURSDAY, 1.30-3.30PM

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 2: THURSDAY, 4-6PM

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 3: FRIDAY, 9-11AM

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 4: FRIDAY, 1.30-3.30PM

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


PLENARY 2: POLICY (ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION), FRIDAY, 3.30-5.30PM

OLD 321

Chair: Purnima Menon

    • Emanuela Galasso, The World Bank
    • Rajan Sankar,Tata Trusts
    • Harold Alderman, International Food Policy Research Institute
    • Katherine Richards, Save the Children UK
    • Jody Harris, Institute of Development Studies