Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel

dc.creatorAlfani, Federica
dc.creatorDabalen, Andrew
dc.creatorFisker, Peter
dc.creatorMolini, Vasco
dc.date2020-01-21T19:59:08Z
dc.date2020-01-21T19:59:08Z
dc.date2019-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:42:54Z
dc.descriptionThis paper presents a simple simulation framework for understanding and analyzing vulnerability to stunting. We utilize Demographic and Health Surveys merged with satellite data on climatic shocks. Children aged 0–5 years are grouped into three categories: consistently stunted, vulnerable, and non-vulnerable. The first group constitutes those who are stunted and will also be stunted in any hypothetical period. Non-vulnerable are those whose likelihood to be stunted is zero. The vulnerable face a probability between 0 and 1 of being stunted. The probability is calculated as the share of years in which the child would be stunted, given the village level distribution of weather shocks over the period 2000–2013. We provide estimates of vulnerability to stunting in Burkina Faso, Northern Ghana, Mali, Northern Nigeria, and Senegal by aggregating over villages, districts and countries.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierFood Policy
dc.identifier0306-9192
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/33205
dc.identifier10.1596/33205
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/409723
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectSTUNTING
dc.subjectVULNERABILITY
dc.subjectCLIMATIC SHOCK
dc.subjectSAHEL
dc.titleVulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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