Weather and child health in rural Nigeria

Journal of African Economies

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 464-492

  Rabassa, Mariano ^a   Skoufias, Emmanuel ^b   Jacoby, Hanan ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA ARGENTINA   (Argentina)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; CLIMATE EFFECT; DIARRHEAL DISEASE; RAINFALL; RURAL AREA; WEATHER;

NIGERIA;

EID: 84905252256     PISSN: 09638024     EISSN: 14643723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jae/eju005     Document Type: Article

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