in two districts in Kenya between May 2005 and September 2005. Multinomial logit models and ordered probit models were …, Household Model, Multinomial Logistic Regression, Ordered Logistic Regression, Kenya. …

Poor child health and nutrition persist throughout West Africa. This research analyzes the impact of key economic … variables, including income, education and background characteristics, on child health and nutrition across nine different … upbringing, and hence taller, have healthier children, ceteris parabus. This finding is consistent with long run observations …

Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … paper builds on that literature by considering the influence that net nutrition has on a population’s labor productivity … nutrition in people’s first 20 years has had a significant and positive effect on labor productivity over the twentieth century …

on child nutrition in developing countries has been more successful, and here consistent patterns have been found. There …