ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2020
Climate exposures and child undernutrition: Evidence from Indonesia.
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- Exploring the Effects of Climate Change on Child Malnutrition: A Scoping Review.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2026Article
- Does humidity matter? Prenatal heat and child health in South Asia.Science advances · 2025Article
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- The relationship between prenatal heat exposure and birth outcomes: How much does the heat metric matter?PloS one · 2025Article
- Predicting the short and long term effects of food price inflation, armed conflicts, and climate variability on global acute malnutrition in Somalia.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2024Article
- Net benefit of smaller human populations to environmental integrity and individual health and wellbeing.Frontiers in public health · 2024Review
- Food inflation and child undernutrition in low and middle income countries.Nature communications · 2023Article
- "Measuring the Environmental Context of Child Growth in Burkina Faso".Population and environment · 2023Article
- Investigating the relationship between growing season quality and childbearing goals.Global environmental change : human and policy dimensions · 2023Article
- Extreme climatic events and human biology and health: A primer and opportunities for future research.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2023Article
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- The Childhood Origins of Climate-Induced Mobility and Immobility.Population and development review · 2022Article
- Climate change, social vulnerability and child nutrition in South Asia.Global environmental change : human and policy dimensions · 2021Article
- Climate Variability and Child Nutrition: Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa.Global environmental change : human and policy dimensions · 2020Article
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Abstract
Global climate change has the potential to disrupt agricultural systems, undermine household socioeconomic status, and shape the prevalence and distribution of diseases. Each of these changes may influence children's nutritional status, which is sensitive to food availability, access, and utilization, and which may have lasting consequences for later-life health and socioeconomic outcomes. This paper contributes to the emerging literature on climate and child health by studying the effects of temperature and precipitation exposures on children's height and weight in Indonesia. Drawing on five rounds of the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) implemented between 1993 and 2015, we estimate fixed-effects regression models of height-for-age (HFA) and weight-for-height (WFH) among samples of children ages 24-59 months and 0-23 months, respectively. We test for heterogeneity in these effects across sub-populations expected to vary in their vulnerability. Results show that delays in monsoon onset are consistently associated with worse child health outcomes. Delays in monsoon onset during the prenatal period are associated with reduced child height among children age 2-4 years. The weight of young (<2 years) children is adversely affected by delays in the most recent monsoon season, and this relationship is particularly strong among residents of Java. Overall, our results underline the need for interventions that protect children's nutrition and underlying health against the effects of climate change.
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