Essays about: "height-for-age Z-scores"

Found 3 essays containing the words height-for-age Z-scores.

  1. 1. Early life economic shocks and child health outcomes : evidence from Kenya

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Douglas Kazibwe; [2019]
    Keywords : height-for-age; under-five mortality; early life; commodity pPrices; human capital; Kenya;

    Abstract : This paper examines the relationship between commodity price shocks experienced in the early period of life and child health outcomes. The study uses a nationally representative household survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys in Kenya matched with a time series of real producer prices of tea in estimating the effect of price shock on child health outcomes. READ MORE

  3. 2. Rainfall Shocks and the Effects on Child Anthropometric Measures in Rural Ethiopia: Empirical Evidence of Gender Differences

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Margot Kurfess; Björn Wisaeus; [2016]
    Keywords : Rainfall; Gender; Income variability; Sub-Saharan Africa;

    Abstract : This paper seeks to estimate the effects of rainfall fluctuations on the anthropometric health of children under the age of five in rural Ethiopia. Our interest is to study whether boys and girls experience differential treatment in the intra-household allocation of resources towards health following rainfall shocks in the previous rainy season and whether or not children of different ages are especially sensitive. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Impact of early childhood conditions on future labor outcomes: Does the early-life health and nutritional status affect future earnings into young adulthood? A case study of the Cebu Metropolitan Area, Philippines

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Elisavet Avgeropoulou; [2014]
    Keywords : early childhood; nutrition; health; Philippines; future earnings; IV approach; height-for-age Z-scores; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to contribute to the expanding literature that associates early childhood conditions to future outcomes. Using the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey, we will try to provide further empirical evidence to the question whether early-life health and nutritional status has impact on earnings into young adulthood for the case of the metropolitan area of Cebu in Philippines. READ MORE