Womenâ€™s Malnutrition in India: The Role of Economic and Social Status

This study has used India Human Development Survey, 2005 to study the factors influencing the Body Mass Index (BMI) of women between 20 to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition and over nutrition and a quantile regression model has been used to capture the differential impact of the explanatory variables across the wide range of its values.

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Year of publication:	2014-11
Authors:	Dahiya, Shikha ; Viswanathan, Brinda
Institutions:	eSocialSciences
Subject:	malnutrition \| women \| India \| Human development survey \| BMI \| body mass index \| per capita income \| per capita consumption expenditure \| wealth \| under nutrition \| overweight \| obesity

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Institutional Papers
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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