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Food Inflation and Child Health

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dc.contributor.authorWoldemichael, Andinet
dc.contributor.authorKidane, Daniel
dc.contributor.authorShimeles, Abebe
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-25T00:15:31Z
dc.date.available2024-02-25T00:15:31Z
dc.date.issued2022-05-26
dc.description.abstractMalnutrition is one of the most important early life shocks that have lasting effects on health. An often-neglected cause of malnutrition and hidden hunger is high food inflation, particularly in developing countries. This study uses the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey data, matching each child’s early life age in months from the time of conception with the corresponding local monthly food price data to examine the medium-term and long-term impacts of exposure to food inflation during the critical early life window, pregnancy and infancy, on child health. Exposure to one percentage point higher month-to-month food inflation while in utero increases the risk of under-five stunting by 0.95 percent. The impacts are heterogeneous depending on the month of exposure, highlighting the complicated biological mechanisms through which malnutrition during early life affects human growth. The results are robust to various empirical specifications and potential biases arising from survivor sample selection and age misreporting.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099612012112329090/IDU08048f7e50dd3b046910bdbb00b28d7db83f0
dc.identifier.citationThe World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41102
dc.identifier.issn0258-6770 (print)
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41102
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherPublished by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectIN UTERO
dc.subjectHEIGHT
dc.subjectSTUNTING
dc.subjectMACROECONOMIC INSTABILITY
dc.subjectMALNUTRITION
dc.subjectLOW-INCOME
dc.subjectAFRICA
dc.titleFood Inflation and Child Healthen
dc.typeJournal Article
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okr.crossref.titleFood Inflation and Child Health
okr.date.disclosure2024-02-24
okr.date.lastmodified2023-12-11T00:00:00Zen
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okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhac009
okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41102
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okr.region.geographicalAfrica
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Nutrition
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population::Health Monitoring & Evaluation
okr.unitOff of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume36 (3)
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