Poel, Ellen van de; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
. First, we document the magnitude of rural-urban disparities in child nutritional status and under-five mortality across all … entirely mirror the gap in under-five mortality. The most striking difference between the two is in the Latin American and … Caribbean region, where the gap in stunting is more than 1.5 times higher than that in mortality. On average, the rural …