Nutrition, Activity Intensity and Wage Linkages: Evidence from India

Katsushi Imai, Samuel Annim, Veena S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha
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Veena S. Kulkarni: Arkansas State University, USA
Raghav Gaiha: Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India

No DP2012-10, Discussion Paper Series from Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University

Abstract: The present study tests the twin hypotheses, namely, (a) the poverty nutrition trap hypothesis that wages affect nutritional status, and (b) the activity hypothesis that activity intensity affects adult nutrition as measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI) in the context of India. The analyses draw upon three rounds of National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data in 1992, 1998 and 2005 and National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) data in 2005. Our results indicate strong support for both the hypotheses in India. Physically intensive activity tends to worsen the nutritional conditions and there is evidence for a poverty nutrition trap associated with labor market participation.

Keywords: Adult Nutrition; Malnutrition; Poverty Trap; Activity Intensity; Quantile Regressions; Pseudo Panel; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C23 I14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2012-03, Revised 2014-05
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