Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 22, Issue , 2016, Pages 65-81

  Puentes, Esteban ^a   Wang, Fan ^b   Behrman, Jere R ^c   Cunha, Flavio ^d   Hoddinott, John ^e   Maluccio, John A ^f   Adair, Linda S ^g   Borja, Judith B ^h   Martorell, Reynaldo ⁱ   Stein, Aryeh D ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SAN CARLOS   (Philippines)

ⁱ EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early childhood; Endogeneity of inputs; Growth Proteins; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMAN; MACRONUTRIENT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEASUREMENT ERROR; PHILIPPINES; PROTEIN INTAKE; BREAST FEEDING; DIARRHEA; INFANT; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; DIARRHEA; DIETARY PROTEINS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; MALE; PHILIPPINES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84962193055     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: 18736130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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