Early childhood stunting and later life outcomes

• Verfasst von: Deshpande, Ashwini [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Ramachandran, Rajesh [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Early childhood stunting and later life outcomes
• Titelzusatz: a longitudinal analysis
• Verf.angabe: Ashwini Deshpande, Rajesh Ramachandran
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: January 2022
• Umfang: 13 S.
• Fussnoten: Online veröffentlicht am 16. Dezember 2021 ; Gesehen am 07.08.2023
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Economics and human biology
• Ort Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 2003
• Jahr Quelle: 2022
• Band/Heft Quelle: 44(2022) vom: Jan., Artikel-ID 101099, Seite 1-13
• ISSN Quelle: 1873-6130
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2021.101099
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Chronic malnutrition
• Sach-SW: Economic shocks
• Sach-SW: Health inputs
• Sach-SW: Human capital
• K10plus-PPN: 185445126X

Abstract

Using longitudinal data from four countries-Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam- we show that early childhood stunting is highly persistent as measured by the association between stunting status in early childhood and stunting status at age 15. Stunting in early childhood is associated with lower grade completion by age 22 and has a negative relationship with cognition as measured by math, language and reading scores at ages 8, 12 and 15. Stunting in early childhood is also associated with poorer subjective assessment of a child’s health at age 15. Analyzing determinants, we show that lack of preventive care and economic shocks are associated with an increase in the probability of stunting in early childhood.