Georgiadis, A, Benny, L, Dornan, P et al. (1 more author) (2021) Maternal Undernutrition in Adolescence and Child Human Capital Development Over the Life Course: Evidence from an International Cohort Study. Economica, 88 (352). pp. 942-968. ISSN 0013-0427
Abstract
Adolescence has been highlighted as a period when environments are critical for the human capital development of women, and thus of their children, but evidence on this from low- and middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate the effect of mother’s adolescent undernutrition on offspring growth and development from infancy through adolescence using data from an international cohort study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam, and instrumental variables estimation that employs rainfall shocks during mother’s adolescence as instruments for mother’s nutritional status. We find a positive and significant effect of mother’s adolescent nutritional status on child height-for-age in infancy that persists through to adolescence, and evidence that this may manifest mainly through a biological channel. Our results also support a significant impact of rainfall shocks during mother’s early adolescence on mother’s adult height and child growth from infancy to adolescence. We find no significant effect of mother’s adolescent nutritional status and rainfall shocks during mother’s adolescence on child achievement tests scores, however.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 The Authors. Economica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of London School of Economics and Political Science. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > International Business Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 May 2022 12:13 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:59 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ecca.12379 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187126 |