Economic shocks and child wasting

Derek Headey and Marie Ruel ()

No 1941, IFPRI discussion papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: In developing countries macroeconomic volatility is common, and severe negative economic shocks can substantially increase poverty and food insecurity. Less well understood are the implications of these contractions for child acute malnutrition (wasting), a major risk factor for under-5 mortality. This study explores the nutritional impacts of growth shocks over 1990-2018 by linking wasting outcomes collected for 1.256 million children from 52 countries to lagged annual changes in national income. Difference-in-difference estimates suggest that a 10% annual decline in national income increases moderate/severe (WHZ

Keywords: models; child nutrition; economic growth; shock; covid-19; linear models; nutrition; wasting disease (nutritional disorder); mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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