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Abstract
Children’s under-nutrition and poor health conditions can have severe consequences for household welfare, especially in developing countries. In chapter 2, I estimate the effects of child health conditions on maternal farm employment (family farm and paid farm labor) and non-farm employment (self-employment and salary jobs) in Malawi. Chapter 3 explores ways to improve household nutrition. I investigate a long-standing debate in development economics, the policy choice between using agriculture as a leverage to improve nutrition by raising income and making healthy food affordable (market-based solution) and using agriculture to improve nutrition by fostering the productivity of crops with desirable nutritional attributes (nutrition sensitive agriculture solution). I reformulate this question as a test of agricultural household separability hypothesis using Nigerian farming households as the basis of empirical evidence.