Hoddinott, John; Kinsey, Bill - In: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 63 (2001) 4, pp. 409-36
This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of child health, growth in height, drawing on a unique household panel data set from rural Zimbabwe. We find that children aged 12 to 24 months lose 1.5-2 cm of growth in the aftermath of a drought. Catch-up growth in these children...