The impact of child health and nutrition on education in developing countries: Theory, econometric issues, and recent empirical evidence

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 2 SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages

  Glewwe, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child health; Child nutrition; Cross sectional data; Developing countries; Econometrics; Education; Estimation; Panel data; Randomized trials

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DEVELOPING WORLD; EDUCATION; NUTRITION;

EID: 21344455710     PISSN: 03795721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/15648265050262s215     Document Type: Article

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