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Abu S. Shonchoy, PhD , Agha A. Akram, PhD , Mahrukh Khan, BSc , Hina Khalid, PhD , Sidra Mazhar, MSc , Akib Khan, MS , and Takashi Kurosaki, PhD Abu S. Shonchoy is with the Department of Economics, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, Florida International University, Miami. At the time of this work, Agha A. Akram was with the Department of Economics, Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Social Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences; Mahrukh Khan was with the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan; Hina Khalid was with the Department of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Information Technology University; and Sidra Mazhar was with the Center for Economic Research in Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan. Akib Khan is with the Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. Takashi Kurosaki is with the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. “A Community Health Worker–Based Intervention on Anthropometric Outcomes of Children Aged 3 to 21 Months in Urban Pakistan, 2019–2021”, American Journal of Public Health 113, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): pp. 105-114.

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