The Impact of Prime Age Adult Mortality on Child Survival and Growth in Rural Ethiopia

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1116-1128

  Kadiyala, Suneetha ^a   Quisumbing, Agnes ^a   Rogers, Beatrice ^b   Webb, Patrick ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adult mortality; Africa; child growth; child mortality; Ethiopia; propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; GROWTH RATE; LONGEVITY; MORTALITY RISK; POLICY STRATEGY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION POLICY; SURVIVAL;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 67349226394     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.10.003     Document Type: Article

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