Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children in India

Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India (1992/93, 1998/99 and 2005/06) are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all...

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Main Authors:	Alderman, H., Lokshin, M., Radyakin, S.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5052

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spelling	okr-10986-50522021-04-23T14:02:20Z Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children in India Alderman, H. Lokshin, M. Radyakin, S. Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India (1992/93, 1998/99 and 2005/06) are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large differences in anthropometrics between the children who died and those who survived. Differences of this size are not substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although mortality risk is higher among malnourished children, selective mortality has only a minor impact on the measured nutritional status of children stratified by gender. 2012-03-30T07:31:02Z 2012-03-30T07:31:02Z 2011 Journal Article Econ Hum Biol 1873-6130 (Electronic) 1570-677X (Linking) http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5052 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article India
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description	Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India (1992/93, 1998/99 and 2005/06) are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large differences in anthropometrics between the children who died and those who survived. Differences of this size are not substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although mortality risk is higher among malnourished children, selective mortality has only a minor impact on the measured nutritional status of children stratified by gender.
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author	Alderman, H. Lokshin, M. Radyakin, S.
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title	Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children in India
title_short	Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children in India
title_full	Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children in India
title_fullStr	Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children in India
title_full_unstemmed	Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children in India
title_sort	tall claims : mortality selection and the height of children in india
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Tall Claims : Mortality Selection and the Height of Children in India

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