Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition

Harold Alderman (), John Hoddinott () and Bill Kinsey

No 168, FCND briefs from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: "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." Authors' Abstract

Keywords: Civil war Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003
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Working Paper: Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition (2003)
Working Paper: Long Term Consequences Of Early Childhood Malnutrition (2004)
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