Early Life Nutrition and Subsequent Education, Health, Wage, and Intergenerational Effects

This paper first summarizes recent research in developing countries that is surveyed in prominent Lancet articles and that reports, albeit based on relatively few systematic studies, substantial associations between early life nutrition and subsequ...

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Main Author:	Behrman, Jere R.
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	ADOLESCENCE ADOLESCENTS ADOPTED CHILDREN ADULT HEALTH AGING AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGIES ANEMIA BABIES BABY BACTERIAL INFECTIONS BASIC HEALTH BIRTH SPACING BIRTHS BLIND BREASTFEEDING BULLETIN CALORIC INTAKE CANCERS CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE CHILD CARE CHILD CARE PROGRAMS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CHILD GROWTH CHILD MALNUTRITION CHILD NUTRITION CHILDBEARING CHRONIC DISEASES CLIMATE CHANGE COHORT STUDIES COMMUNICABLE DISEASES CONTROL OF MALARIA CRIME CULTURAL CHANGE DEPRESSION DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEWORMING DIABETES DIET DISSEMINATION DRUGS EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT EARLY CHILDHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY EXPOSURE TO VIOLENCE FAMILIES FEMALES FIBER FOOD POLICY FOOD PRODUCTION FOOD SUPPLEMENTS FRUIT FUTURE GENERATIONS GREENHOUSE GASES GROWTH MONITORING HEALTH CENTERS HEALTH OUTCOMES HEALTH SECTOR HEALTH SERVICES HIV/AIDS HOSPITALS HUMAN CAPITAL HUNGER ILLNESSES IMMUNIZATION INFANT INFANT FORMULA INFANT MORTALITY INFANTS INFECTIOUS DISEASES INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERVENTION IODINE IODINE DEFICIENCIES IRON IRON DEFICIENCIES IRON DEFICIENCY IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA ISOLATION LABOR MARKET LEGAL STATUS LIPIDS LOW BIRTH WEIGHT LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES LOW-INCOME COUNTRY MALARIA MALNUTRITION MATERNAL HEALTH MATERNAL MORTALITY MEDICAL CARE MENTAL MENTAL ILLNESS MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES MICRONUTRIENTS MIGRANTS MIGRATION MORTALITY MOTHER NATURAL RESOURCES NEONATAL CARE NEWBORNS NURSING NUTRIENT NUTRITION NUTRITION INTERVENTIONS NUTRITIONAL INTAKES NUTRITIONAL OUTCOMES NUTRITIONAL STATUS NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTATION OBESITY OSTEOPOROSIS PARASITIC DISEASE PARENTING POLICY MAKERS POLICY RESEARCH POOR FAMILIES POPULATION STUDIES PRACTITIONERS PREGNANCIES PREGNANCY PREGNANCY OUTCOMES PREGNANT WOMAN PREGNANT WOMEN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS PREVALENCE PROTEIN PROTEIN DEFICIENCY PROTEINS RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS RESIDENCE STATUS RESOURCE FLOWS RICE RISK FACTORS SANITATION SCHOOL ATTENDANCE SCREENING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE SKILLED WORKERS SMOKING SOCIAL AWARENESS SPOUSE SPOUSES STUNTED CHILDREN STUNTING SUGAR TREATMENT UNDERNUTRITION VIOLENCE VITAMIN VITAMIN A VITAMIN A DEFICIENCIES VITAMIN A SUPPLEMENTATION WASTE WASTED CHILDREN WASTING WATER SUPPLY WEIGHT GAIN WORKERS WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION YOUNG CHILDREN
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/848441468176953803/Early-life-nutrition-and-subsequent-education-health-wage-and-intergenerational-effects http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28030

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Summary:	This paper first summarizes recent research in developing countries that is surveyed in prominent Lancet articles and that reports, albeit based on relatively few systematic studies, substantial associations between early life nutrition and subsequent education, health, wage, and intergenerational outcomes. The rest of the paper summarizes further evidence. The next section summarizes some of the strongest micro-level evidence available based on panel data over 35 years from Guatemala on causal effects of early life nutritional improvements on adult cognitive skills and wage rates and offspring anthropometric outcomes. The subsequent section summarizes some benefit-cost analyses for early life nutritional interventions that led to such interventions being ranked highly among interventions of all types, largely on the basis of benefit-cost ratios by prominent economists in the 2004 Copenhagen Consensus. The studies reviewed in this paper indicate that improved early life nutrition in poorly nourished populations may have substantial causal effects on improving productivity and saving resources over the life cycle and into the next generation and may have benefits that substantially outweigh the costs. Thus, in addition to important direct intrinsic welfare benefits, better early life nutrition in such contexts should be a high priority in strategies for increasing growth and productivity.

Early Life Nutrition and Subsequent Education, Health, Wage, and Intergenerational Effects

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