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Oxford Economic Papers 2006 58(3):450-474; doi:10.1093/oep/gpl008
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Long term consequences of early childhood malnutrition

Harold Alderman*, John Hoddinott{dagger},, and Bill Kinsey{ddagger}

*World Bank
{dagger}International Food Policy Research Institute, 2033 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20006, USA
{ddagger}University of Zimbabwe and Free University, Amsterdam

Correspondence: e-mail: J.Hoddinott{at}cgiar.org

This paper examines the impact of pre-school malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects—instrumental variables (MFE-IV) estimator with a long term panel data set. Representations of civil war and drought shocks are used to identify differences in pre-school nutritional status across siblings. Improvements in height-for-age in pre-schoolers are associated with increased height as a young adult and number of grades of schooling completed. Had the median pre-school child in this sample had the stature of a median child in a developed country, by adolescence, she would be 3.4 centimeters taller, had completed an additional 0.85 grades of schooling and would have commenced school six months earlier.

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