Our research shows that each dollar spent on nutrition in the first 1,000 days of a child’s life returns $45 in productivity over a working life span through age 50.
So @BrookingsInst asks why don’t we spend much more on nutrition?
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Bogus study. A kid fed $1000 worth of food a day won’t start shitting gold and diamonds. There’s clearly a more telling variable not being explored here.
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After 50 years, those $45 have the same purchasing power that $1 had.
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Inflation is not that rapid, more like 3 dollars.
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I'ma failure because my parents didn't feed me enough...waaaaahhhh waaahhhhh
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is the author really so stupid?: “Interestingly, returns of a similar order of magnitude for cutting tuberculosis ($43 return), malaria ($36 return) and HIV/AIDS (returns of $28 to $10) have led to major international efforts to expand development assistance”
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The "each dollar spent" language suggests to me that it's a marginal return. Is it in fact a marginal return, or is it an average return? I.e. is it a statement about df/dx or one about f(x)/x?
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