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Parental Nutrition Knowledge, Iron Deficiency, and Child Anaemia in Rural China

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  • Qiran Zhao
  • Xiaohua Yu

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Anaemia is a factor that could affect health and school performance of students and shed a shadow on poverty in the long-run, particularly in rural China. In response, the current literature mainly pays attention to the effect of direct payments such as money and food. Although some literature indicates that a key to children’s nutritional improvement is to increase their parents’ nutrition knowledge, it has not been well studied. The main purpose of this paper is to test whether nutrition knowledge training for parents can significantly decrease anaemia in their children. This article uses a randomised control trial of information intervention for parents of more than 2000 fourth and fifth grade students in 42 randomly selected rural primary schools in northwest China and confirms that parental nutrition knowledge training has a positive effect on students’ haemoglobin level, through the channel of knowledge improvement and dietary change. Specifically, the programme could reduce children’s anaemia by 6.1 per cent in probability, and increase haemoglobin values by 2.8 on average.

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  • Qiran Zhao & Xiaohua Yu, 2020. "Parental Nutrition Knowledge, Iron Deficiency, and Child Anaemia in Rural China," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(3), pages 578-595, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:56:y:2020:i:3:p:578-595
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2019.1573315
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    1. Cui, Yi & Zhao, Qiran & Si, Wei & Fan, Shenggen, 2024. "Can information intervention improve dietary quality? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in rural China," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 176(C).
    2. Zhang, Ying & Li, Ruotong & Zhao, Qiran & Fan, Shenggen, 2023. "The impact of peer effect on students' consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages- instrumental variable evidence from north China," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
    3. Lei Gao & Ruotong Li & Peiyan Zhao & Ying Zhang, 2022. "The Peer Effect on Dietary and Nutritional Cognition among Primary School Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(13), pages 1-16, June.

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