Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes

The implications of urbanization on child nutritional outcomes are investigated using satellite-based nighttime light intensity data as a marker of urbanization with data from two rounds of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. Nighttime light introduces a gradient of urbanization permitting in...

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Main Authors:	Amare, Mulubrhan, Arndt, Channing, Abay, Kibrom A., Benson, Todd
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2021
Subjects:	CHILD NUTRITION MALNUTRITION URBANIZATION NIGHTTIME LIGHT AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36071

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spelling	okr-10986-360712021-08-07T05:10:29Z Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes Amare, Mulubrhan Arndt, Channing Abay, Kibrom A. Benson, Todd CHILD NUTRITION MALNUTRITION URBANIZATION NIGHTTIME LIGHT AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS The implications of urbanization on child nutritional outcomes are investigated using satellite-based nighttime light intensity data as a marker of urbanization with data from two rounds of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. Nighttime light introduces a gradient of urbanization permitting investigation of the implications of urbanization on child nutritional outcomes along an urbanization continuum. Nightlight is found to significantly predict child nutritional outcomes even after controlling for observable covariates known to influence child nutrition. In all specifications, improvements in child nutrition outcomes onset with relatively low levels of light emissions and continue rapidly as nightlight intensity increases before largely leveling off. These nonlinear relationships highlight the value of nightlight as a population agglomeration indicator relative to traditional binary rural-urban indicators. Consistent with other recent work, patterns of urbanization influence welfare outcomes. At least for Nigeria, a pattern that extends the benefits of urban agglomeration to larger shares of the population would speed improvements to child nutritional outcomes. 2021-08-06T16:26:04Z 2021-08-06T16:26:04Z 2020-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36071 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article Africa Africa Western and Central (AFW) Nigeria
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topic	CHILD NUTRITION MALNUTRITION URBANIZATION NIGHTTIME LIGHT AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS
spellingShingle	CHILD NUTRITION MALNUTRITION URBANIZATION NIGHTTIME LIGHT AGGLOMERATION ECONOMICS Amare, Mulubrhan Arndt, Channing Abay, Kibrom A. Benson, Todd Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes
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description	The implications of urbanization on child nutritional outcomes are investigated using satellite-based nighttime light intensity data as a marker of urbanization with data from two rounds of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey. Nighttime light introduces a gradient of urbanization permitting investigation of the implications of urbanization on child nutritional outcomes along an urbanization continuum. Nightlight is found to significantly predict child nutritional outcomes even after controlling for observable covariates known to influence child nutrition. In all specifications, improvements in child nutrition outcomes onset with relatively low levels of light emissions and continue rapidly as nightlight intensity increases before largely leveling off. These nonlinear relationships highlight the value of nightlight as a population agglomeration indicator relative to traditional binary rural-urban indicators. Consistent with other recent work, patterns of urbanization influence welfare outcomes. At least for Nigeria, a pattern that extends the benefits of urban agglomeration to larger shares of the population would speed improvements to child nutritional outcomes.
format	Journal Article
author	Amare, Mulubrhan Arndt, Channing Abay, Kibrom A. Benson, Todd
author_facet	Amare, Mulubrhan Arndt, Channing Abay, Kibrom A. Benson, Todd
author_sort	Amare, Mulubrhan
title	Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes
title_short	Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes
title_full	Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes
title_fullStr	Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes
title_full_unstemmed	Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes
title_sort	urbanization and child nutritional outcomes
publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2021
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36071
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Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes

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