Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children

Alderman, Harold; Lokshin, Michael; Radyakin, Sergiy

dc.creator	Alderman, Harold
dc.creator	Lokshin, Michael
dc.creator	Radyakin, Sergiy
dc.date	2012-03-19T18:05:33Z
dc.date	2012-03-19T18:05:33Z
dc.date	2011-10-01
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-17T21:00:23Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-17T21:00:23Z
dc.identifier	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20111018090740
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3613
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/244577
dc.description	Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on children s anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large differences in anthropometrics between the children who died and those who survived. Differences of this size are not substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although mortality risk is higher among malnourished children, selective mortality has only a minor impact on the measured nutritional status of children or on that status distinguished by gender.
dc.language	English
dc.relation	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5846
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	ADEQUATE NUTRITION
dc.subject	ADULT HEALTH
dc.subject	ADULT MORTALITY
dc.subject	ALGORITHM
dc.subject	ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES
dc.subject	ANTIBIOTICS
dc.subject	BIRTH SPACING
dc.subject	BIRTH WEIGHTS
dc.subject	BOTH SEXES
dc.subject	BULLETIN
dc.subject	CHILD BIRTH
dc.subject	CHILD DEATHS
dc.subject	CHILD DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	CHILD GROWTH
dc.subject	CHILD HEALTH
dc.subject	CHILD MORTALITY
dc.subject	CHILD MORTALITY RATE
dc.subject	CHILD NUTRITION
dc.subject	CHILD SURVIVAL
dc.subject	CHILD SURVIVAL INTERVENTIONS
dc.subject	CULTURAL CHANGE
dc.subject	DEATHS OF CHILDREN
dc.subject	DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT POLICY
dc.subject	EARLY CHILDHOOD
dc.subject	EARLY CHILDHOOD MORTALITY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	EDUCATED MOTHERS
dc.subject	EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
dc.subject	ELDERLY
dc.subject	EPIDEMIOLOGY
dc.subject	FAMILIES
dc.subject	FAMILY HEALTH
dc.subject	FAMILY HEALTH SURVEYS
dc.subject	FERTILITY
dc.subject	GENDER DIFFERENCES
dc.subject	GENDER GAP
dc.subject	GESTATIONAL AGE
dc.subject	GIRLS
dc.subject	HEALTH CARE
dc.subject	HEALTH CONSEQUENCES
dc.subject	HEALTH OUTCOMES
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD ASSETS
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD SIZE
dc.subject	HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject	HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	HUMAN GROWTH
dc.subject	HUMAN WELFARE
dc.subject	IMMUNIZATIONS
dc.subject	INFANT
dc.subject	INFANT MORTALITY
dc.subject	INFANTS
dc.subject	JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
dc.subject	LABOR MARKET
dc.subject	LESS EDUCATED MOTHERS
dc.subject	LIVING CONDITIONS
dc.subject	LOW BIRTH WEIGHT
dc.subject	MALNOURISHED CHILDREN
dc.subject	MALNUTRITION
dc.subject	MARRIED WOMEN
dc.subject	MATERNAL MORTALITY
dc.subject	MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES
dc.subject	MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL
dc.subject	MORBIDITY
dc.subject	MORTALITY
dc.subject	MORTALITY RATE
dc.subject	MORTALITY RATES
dc.subject	MORTALITY RISK
dc.subject	MOTHER
dc.subject	NATIONAL FAMILY HEALTH SURVEY
dc.subject	NEONATAL MORTALITY
dc.subject	NEONATAL PERIOD
dc.subject	NUTRITION
dc.subject	NUTRITIONAL STATUS
dc.subject	OBSTETRICS
dc.subject	ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY
dc.subject	PEDIATRICS
dc.subject	POLICY DISCUSSIONS
dc.subject	POLICY IMPLICATIONS
dc.subject	POLICY RESEARCH
dc.subject	POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
dc.subject	POPULATION GROUPS
dc.subject	PREVALENCE OF MALNUTRITION
dc.subject	PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject	PROGRESS
dc.subject	PUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subject	RURAL AREAS
dc.subject	SEX
dc.subject	SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER
dc.subject	STUNTING
dc.subject	UNDERNUTRITION
dc.subject	UNDERWEIGHT RATES
dc.subject	UNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subject	URBAN POPULATION
dc.subject	WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
dc.subject	YOUNG CHILDREN
dc.title	Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children
dc.type	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
dc.type	Publications & Research
dc.coverage	The World Region
dc.coverage	The World Region