Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CULTURAL CHANGE(2010)
摘要
India experienced several years of fast economic growth during the 1990s, and ac- cording to many observers this period also saw a considerable decline in poverty, espe- cially in urban areas. We use data from two rounds of the National Family and Health Survey to evaluate changes in nutritional status between 1992-93 and 1998-99 among children of age 0 to 3. We find that measures of short-term nutritional status based on weight given height show large improvements, especially in urban areas. Height-for- age, an indicator of long-term nutritional status, also shows improvements, but limited to urban areas. However, we also document that the changes in nutritional status were much more favorable for boys than for girls. The gender dierences
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child anthropometry,india,child nutrition
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