The structural relationship between early nutrition, cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills in four developing countries

Economics and Human Biology

Volumn 27, Issue , 2017, Pages 33-54

  Sánchez, Alan ^a  

^a Group for the Analysis of Development Lima   (Peru)

Author keywords

Children; Early childhood development; Nutrition; Skills

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHIOPIA; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; INFANT; NUTRITION; PERU; SKILL; VIET NAM; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARENTING; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85044124135     PISSN: 1570677X     EISSN: 18736130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2017.04.001     Document Type: Article

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