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Joseph Cummins
Researcher at University of California, Riverside
Publications - 12
Citations - 639
Joseph Cummins is an academic researcher from University of California, Riverside. The author has contributed to research in topics: Covariate & Endowment. The author has an hindex of 7, co-authored 11 publications receiving 564 citations. Previous affiliations of Joseph Cummins include University of California, Davis.
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The Role of Government in Education
TL;DR: The general trend in our times toward increasing intervention by the state in economic affairs has led to a concentration of attention and dispute on the areas where new intervention is proposed and to an acceptance of whatever intervention has so far occurred as natural and unchangeable as discussed by the authors.
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Lipid-based nutrient supplements for pregnant women reduce newborn stunting in a cluster-randomized controlled effectiveness trial in Bangladesh
Malay K Mridha,Susana L Matias,Camila M Chaparro,Rina Rani Paul,Sohrab Hussain,Stephen A. Vosti,Kassandra L. Harding,Joseph Cummins,Louise T Day,Stacy L. Saha,Janet M Peerson,Kathryn G. Dewey +11 more
TL;DR: Prenatal lipid-based nutrient supplements can improve birth outcomes in Bangladeshi women, especially those at higher risk of fetal growth restriction and in infants born before a 10-wk interruption in LNS-PL.
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Lipid-based nutrient supplementation in the first 1000 d improves child growth in Bangladesh: a cluster-randomized effectiveness trial
Kathryn G. Dewey,Malay K Mridha,Susana L Matias,Charles D Arnold,Joseph Cummins,Showkat Ali Khan,Zeina Maalouf-Manasseh,Zakia Siddiqui,Barkat Ullah,Stephen A. Vosti +9 more
TL;DR: Home fortification with small-quantity LNSs, but not MNP, during the first 1000 d improved child linear growth and head size in rural Bangladesh.
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Malthus, Wages, and Preindustrial Growth
TL;DR: This article showed that preindustrial farm employment shares can be estimated from probate occupation reports and that only 60% employed in farming in England in 1560-1579 and 1653-1660, consistent with the high incomes indicated by wages.
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On the Use and Misuse of Child Height-for-Age Z-score in the Demographic and Health Surveys
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of model misspecification bias when estimating cohort-level determinants of child height-for-age z-score (HAZ) using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) is addressed.