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Child survival, height for age and household characteristics in Brazil

Year: 1990

Type: article

Abstract: "The impact of household characteristics on child survival and height, conditional on age, is examined using household survey data from Brazil. Parental education is found to have a very strong positive effect on both outcomes and this is robust to the inclusion of household income and also parental heights, which partly proxy for unobserved family background characteristics. We find that income effects are significant and positive for child survival but insignificant for for child height although the latter depends on identification assumptions. Parental height has a large positive impact on child height and on survival rates even after controlling for all other observable characteristics."

Source: Journal of Development Economics

DOI: 10.1016/0304-3878(90)90022-4

Authors: Duncan Thomas, John Strauss, Maria-Helena Henriques

Institutions: Yale University, RAND Corporation, Istanbul University

Language: English

Topic: Global Maternal and Child Health

Subfield: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, No poverty

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $4,590