ASSESSING THE PRODUCTIVE BENEFITS OF NUTRITION AND HEALTH - AN INTEGRATED HUMAN-CAPITAL APPROACH

Nutrition programs may be evaluated by comparing the productivity of i ndividuals who have benefited from a program to the productivity of si milar individuals who have not benefited. To perform such an evaluatio n a model of the demand for several distinct forms of human capital ma y be required, of how public agencies and private firms work with hous eholds to produce human capital, and of how these investments increase the productivity of individuals. An integrated wage function with end ogenous human capital might then be estimated that provides policymake rs with a tool for simulating the private and social returns to nutrit ion.