Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia

This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings Standards...

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Main Authors:	Brenton, Paul, Nyawo, Mike
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	FOOD PRICES CHILD NUTRITION MALNUTRITION STUNTING WASTING LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT SURVEY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/176941555597489807/Food-Prices-Access-to-Markets-and-Child-Undernutrition-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31578

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spelling	okr-10986-315782022-09-20T00:15:06Z Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia Brenton, Paul Nyawo, Mike FOOD PRICES CHILD NUTRITION MALNUTRITION STUNTING WASTING LIVING STANDARDS MEASUREMENT SURVEY This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices for key cereals, teff, wheat, and maize at the zone level across all regions of the country. Using a panel data fixed effects model, the analysis finds that, contrary to previous studies, rising crop prices are positively associated with improved child stunting rates for children between ages 6 months and 5 years, while the results for wasting are not conclusive. These results suggest that across the board policy interventions that seek to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining potentially positive impacts on child nutrition. 2019-04-25T13:33:16Z 2019-04-25T13:33:16Z 2019-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/176941555597489807/Food-Prices-Access-to-Markets-and-Child-Undernutrition-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31578 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8823 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Ethiopia
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description	This paper looks at how changing food prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Livings Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices for key cereals, teff, wheat, and maize at the zone level across all regions of the country. Using a panel data fixed effects model, the analysis finds that, contrary to previous studies, rising crop prices are positively associated with improved child stunting rates for children between ages 6 months and 5 years, while the results for wasting are not conclusive. These results suggest that across the board policy interventions that seek to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining potentially positive impacts on child nutrition.
format	Working Paper
author	Brenton, Paul Nyawo, Mike
author_facet	Brenton, Paul Nyawo, Mike
author_sort	Brenton, Paul
title	Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
title_short	Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
title_full	Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
title_fullStr	Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed	Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia
title_sort	food prices, access to markets and child undernutrition in ethiopia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/176941555597489807/Food-Prices-Access-to-Markets-and-Child-Undernutrition-in-Ethiopia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31578
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Food Prices, Access to Markets and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia

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