Some of the contribution of schooling to child nutrition appears to come through its interaction with nutrition knowledge - possibly by enhancing women's ability to acquire knowledge or by enabling them to put such knowledge into practice. However, since nutrition knowledge has been shown to generate nutritional improvements even among illiterate populations, and since formal education remains severely limited in most poor developing countries, the potential for targeted transfers of nutrition information to assist in nutritional improvements may be large. This article offers preliminary support for such an argument. The article is organized as follows. Section II describes the survey data used in the analysis, as well as the construction of our proxy for nutrition knowledge. Section III presents nonparametric evidence of the effects of nutrition knowledge, maternal education, and per capita expenditures on nutritional outcomes. Section IV presents supporting parametric results, and Section V concludes with programmatic and research implications. © 2004 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.