Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children

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.

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Main Authors:	Alderman, Harold, Lokshin, Michael, Radyakin, Sergiy
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	2011-10-01
Subjects:	ADEQUATE NUTRITION, ADULT HEALTH, ADULT MORTALITY, ALGORITHM, ANTHROPOMETRIC MEASURES, ANTIBIOTICS, BIRTH SPACING, BIRTH WEIGHTS, BOTH SEXES, BULLETIN, CHILD BIRTH, CHILD DEATHS, CHILD DEVELOPMENT, CHILD GROWTH, CHILD HEALTH, CHILD MORTALITY, CHILD MORTALITY RATE, CHILD NUTRITION, CHILD SURVIVAL, CHILD SURVIVAL INTERVENTIONS, CULTURAL CHANGE, DEATHS OF CHILDREN, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, EARLY CHILDHOOD, EARLY CHILDHOOD MORTALITY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, EDUCATED MOTHERS, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, ELDERLY, EPIDEMIOLOGY, FAMILIES, FAMILY HEALTH, FAMILY HEALTH SURVEYS, FERTILITY, GENDER DIFFERENCES, GENDER GAP, GESTATIONAL AGE, GIRLS, HEALTH CARE, HEALTH CONSEQUENCES, HEALTH OUTCOMES, HOUSEHOLD ASSETS, HOUSEHOLD INCOME, HOUSEHOLD SIZE, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, HUMAN GROWTH, HUMAN WELFARE, IMMUNIZATIONS, INFANT, INFANT MORTALITY, INFANTS, JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, LABOR MARKET, LESS EDUCATED MOTHERS, LIVING CONDITIONS, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, MALNOURISHED CHILDREN, MALNUTRITION, MARRIED WOMEN, MATERNAL MORTALITY, MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES, MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL, MORBIDITY, MORTALITY, MORTALITY RATE, MORTALITY RATES, MORTALITY RISK, MOTHER, NATIONAL FAMILY HEALTH SURVEY, NEONATAL MORTALITY, NEONATAL PERIOD, NUTRITION, NUTRITIONAL STATUS, OBSTETRICS, ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY, PEDIATRICS, POLICY DISCUSSIONS, POLICY IMPLICATIONS, POLICY RESEARCH, POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER, POPULATION GROUPS, PREVALENCE OF MALNUTRITION, PRODUCTIVITY, PROGRESS, PUBLIC SERVICES, RURAL AREAS, SEX, SOURCE OF DRINKING WATER, STUNTING, UNDERNUTRITION, UNDERWEIGHT RATES, UNEMPLOYMENT, URBAN POPULATION, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, YOUNG CHILDREN,
Online Access:	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 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3613
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