NUTRITION, HEALTH AND RURAL LABOR PRODUCTIVITY: PRELIMINARY WAGE EVIDENCE FROM BANGLADESH

Mona Sur and Benjamin Senauer ()

No 21529, 1999 Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between nutrition and rural labor productivity using height and calorie intake as measures of nutrition and health status. The study is based on data from a survey of 956 households conducted in Bangladesh between 1996 and 1997. The paper focuses on adult male agricultural wage earners.

Keywords: Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.21529

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