Long Term Consequences Of Early Childhood Malnutrition

Harold Alderman (), John Hoddinott () and Bill Kinsey
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Bill Kinsey: University of Zimbabwe and Free University, Amsterdam

No 9, HiCN Working Papers from Households in Conflict Network

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 pre-school child in this sample had the stature of a median child in a developed country, by adolescence, she would be 3.4 centimeters taller, had completed an additional 0.85 grades of schooling and would have commenced school six months earlier.

Keywords: health; education; shocks; Zimbabwe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I20 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004-07
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Related works:
Working Paper: Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition (2003)
Working Paper: Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition (2003)
Journal Article: Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition (2006)
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