the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight … decreases faster than child stunting. But these effects have hardly been analyzed empirically. Our cross-country panel … regressions show that the nutrition transition reduces child underweight, while no consistent effect on child overweight is found …

. The main objective of this study was to model the associations between underweight, stunting and wasting and to check … significant association between underweight and stunting (P=0), underweight and wasting (P=0); but not between stunting and …

calculated the probability of a child being stunted or underweight as our measure of malnutrition among children aged 0–59 months … and piped water, and negative and significant for well water. The probabilities of a child being stunted or underweight …. In line with this, the probability of a child being stunted or underweight is negative and significantly related to …

children are stunted, underweight and wasted, respectively. The estimation results indicate that child nutritional status is … strongly associated with the child’s age, gender, immunization status and the mother’s use of antenatal care, farm size …

-for-age z-scores by 0.12–0.15 units, increases the likelihood of stunting and underweight by 7%, and reduces the likelihood of … gender, age, and socioeconomic characteristics. Most notably, the adverse effects on growth outcomes are much smaller among …

associated with lower individual probabilities of being underweight of about 2.5 percent per one hundred dollars. This …