ArticleDemography2018
Growing and Learning When Consumption Is Seasonal: Long-Term Evidence From Tanzania.
Article in Demography, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Growth and Cognitive Development in Tanzanian Children are Associated with Timing of Birth in Relation to Seasonal Malnutrition.The Journal of pediatrics · 2024Trial
- Baseline Characteristics of Study Participants in the Early Life Interventions for Childhood Growth and Development in Tanzania (ELICIT) Trial.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Trial
- Investigating Seasonal Agriculture, Contraceptive Use, and Pregnancy in Burkina Faso.The Professional geographer : the journal of the Association of American Geographers · 2023Article
- Modelling household well-being and poverty trajectories: An application to coastal Bangladesh.PloS one · 2020Article
- Correcting for artifactual correlation between misreported month of birth and attained height-for-age reduces but does not eliminate measured vulnerability to season of birth in poorer countries.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2019Article
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Abstract
This article shows that the seasonality of food consumption during childhood, conditional on average consumption, affects long-run human capital development. We develop a model that distinguishes differences in average consumption levels, seasonal fluctuations, and idiosyncratic shocks, and estimate the model using panel data from early 1990s Tanzania. We then test whether the mean and seasonality of a child's consumption profile affect height and educational attainment in 2010. Results show that the negative effects of greater seasonality are 30 % to 60 % of the magnitudes of the positive effects of greater average consumption. Put differently, children expected to have identical human capital based on annualized consumption measures will have substantially different outcomes if one child's consumption is more seasonal. We discuss implications for measurement and policy.
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