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Growing Richer and Taller : Explaining Change in the Distribution of Child Nutritional Status During Vietnam's Economic Boom

O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - 2007

points in the proportion of children chronically malnourished (stunted). We estimate the extent to which changes in the … of children stunted is explained by changes in the distributions of covariates and 35% is explained by change in the …

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Growing richer and taller : explaining change in the distribution of child nutritional status during Vietnam's economic boom

O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - 2006

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The Effect of Growth and Inequality in Incomes on Health Inequality : Theory and Empirical Evidence from the European Panel

Van Ourti, Tom - 2009

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … decompositions to demonstrate that (i) in all countries except Austria, the income elasticity of health is positive and increases …

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Physical Growth in a Transitional Economy : The Aftermath of South African Apartheid

Cameron, Noel - 2003

and social transition on the growth and development of urban children. Over 4000 children born in Soweto and Johannesburg … were enrolled in the Birth to Ten (BTT) birth-cohort study in 1990. Whilst these children were born with lower birth … demonstrate that the growth of White children continues to be superior to that of their non-White peers and differences that …

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Growing in the Womb : The Effect of Seismic Activity on Fetal Growth

Álvarez-Aranda, Rocío - 2019

We study how prenatal maternal stress, caused by sustained seismic activity, affects birth outcomes in Chile during the period 2011-2015. A mother-fixed-effect model together with the spatiotemporal variation of earthquakes in Chile allow us to deal with identification issues that have obscured...

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