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Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition
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This paper examines the impact of preschool malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects-instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a long-term panel data set. Representations of civil war and drought "shocks" are used to identify differences in preschool nutritional status across siblings. Improvements in height-for-age in preschoolers are associated with increased height as a young adult and number of grades of schooling completed. Had the median preschool child in this sample had the stature of a median child in a developed country, by adolescence, she would be 4.6 centimeters taller and would have completed an additional 0.7 grades of schooling.
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- Authors
- Alderman, H.
- Venue
- Oxford Economic Papers
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2006-04-03
- Volume
- 58
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 450-474
- ISSN
- 0030-7653 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-3812
- OpenAlex
- W2143974785
- Cited by
- 1,532
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 49.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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