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ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2017

Growth recovery and faltering through early adolescence in low- and middle-income countries: Determinants and implications for cognitive development.

Andreas Georgiadis, Liza Benny, Le Thuc Duc, Sheikh Galab, Prudhvikar Reddy, Tassew Woldehanna

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Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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25citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Andreas GeorgiadisBrunel Business School, Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, London, UB8 3PH, UK; Department of International Development, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: andreas.georgiadis@brunel.ac.uk.
Liza BennyYoung Lives Study, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Le Thuc DucCentre for Analysis and Forecasting, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
Sheikh GalabCentre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, India.
Prudhvikar ReddyCentre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, India.
Tassew WoldehannaDepartment of Economics, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Centre for Economic and Social Studies · INUniversity of Oxford · GBAddis Ababa University · ETVietnam Academy of Social Sciences · VN

Funding

Growth recovery, schooling and cognitive achievement: Evidence from four cohortsR01HD070993 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BEHRMAN, JERE R · 2012 to 2015
$1.3M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD070993
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Child chronic undernutrition, as measured by stunting, is prevalent in low- and middle-income countries and is among the major threats to child development. While stunting and its implications for cognitive development have been considered irreversible beyond early childhood there is a lack of consensus in the literature on this, as there is some evidence of recovery from stunting and that this recovery may be associated with improvements in cognition. Less is known however, about the drivers of growth recovery and the aspects of recovery linked to cognitive development. In this paper we investigate the factors associated with growth recovery and faltering through age 12 years and the implications of the incidence, timing, and persistence of post-infancy recovery from stunting for cognitive development using longitudinal data from Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. We find that the factors most systematically associated with accelerated growth both before and after early childhood and across countries include mother's height, household living standards and shocks, community wages, food prices, and garbage collection. Our results suggest that post-infancy recovery from stunting is more likely to be systematically associated with higher achievement scores across countries when it is persistent and that associations between growth trajectories and cognitive achievement in middle childhood do not persist through early adolescence across countries. Overall, our findings indicate that growth after early childhood is responsive to changes in the household and community environments and that growth promotion after early childhood may yield improvements in child cognitive development.

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Aptitude TestsBody HeightChild DevelopmentAdolescentAge FactorsBirth OrderChildChild Nutrition DisordersChild, PreschoolDeveloping CountriesEnvironmentFood SupplyHumansIncomeInfantSanitationChild undernutritionCognitive developmentGrowth trajectoriesPost-infancy growth recovery and faltering

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PMID28260638
PMCPMC5380196
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