Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition

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dc.creatorAlderman, Harold
dc.creatorHoddinott, John F.
dc.creatorKinsey, Bill
dc.date2003
dc.date2024-10-24T12:42:23Z
dc.date2024-10-24T12:42:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:36:54Z
dc.descriptionThis 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
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/155653
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/109489
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAlderman, Harold; Hoddinott, John F.; Kinsey, Bill. 2003. Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition. FCND Discussion Paper 168. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155653
dc.subjectcivil conflict
dc.subjectdata reports
dc.subjectshock
dc.subjecthuman capital
dc.subjectanthropometry
dc.subjecteducation
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjectdrought
dc.subjectnutritional status
dc.subjectgrowth rate
dc.subjectmalnutrition
dc.titleLong-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition
dc.typeWorking Paper

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