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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order: British Children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967985
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The effects on stature of poverty, family size and birth order: British children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2008
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268818
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The Effects on Stature of Poverty, Family Size and Birth Order : British Children in the 1930s
Hatton, Timothy J.; Martin, Richard M. - 2021
This paper examines effects of socio-economic conditions on the standardised heights and body mass index of children in … quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family at a time when genuine poverty still existed … the heights of children. No such effects are found for the body mass index (BMI). We find that household income per capita …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325364
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Urban Poverty and Health in Developing Countries: Household and Neighborhood Effects
Montgomery, Mark R.; Hewett, Paul C. - Economics Department, State University of New … - 2004
In the U.S. and other high-income countries, where most of the population lives in urban areas, there is intense scholarly and program interest in the effects of household and neighborhood living standards on health. Yet very few studies of developing-country cities have examined these issues....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005531031
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Born to win? : the role of circumstances and luck in early childhood health inequalities
Madden, David - 2013
of the distribution. Analysis of the incidence of low birthweight and short birthlength using measures from the poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009791107
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Are Urban Children really healthier?
van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325257
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Women's Health Choices and the Effects on Child Health
Hindman Persson, Therése - 2001
This paper analyses, both theoretically and empirically, women's health choices and their effects on child health for a sample of rural households in Cebu, Philippines. The present study differs from other studies by analysing separately prenatal and postnatal determinants of child health both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208418
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Are urban children really healthier?
Van de Poel, Ellen; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2007
On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372512
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Are Urban Children really healthier?
Poel, Ellen van de; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
On average, child health outcomes are better in urban than in rural areas of developing countries. Understanding the nature and the causes of this rural-urban disparity is essential in contemplating the health consequences of the rapid urbanization taking place throughout the developing world...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137111
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Women's Health Choices and the Effects on Child Health
Hindman Persson, Therése - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2001
This paper analyses, both theoretically and empirically, women's health choices and their effects on child health for a sample of rural households in Cebu, Philippines. The present study differs from other studies by analysing separately prenatal and postnatal determinants of child health both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645217