The Impact of Household Investments on Early Child Neurodevelopment and on Racial and Socioeconomic Developmental Gaps: Evidence from South America

Forum for Health Economics and Policy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Wehby, George L ^a   McCarthy, Ann Marie ^a   Castilla, Eduardo ^b   Murray, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b ECLAMC   (Chile)

Author keywords

child development; child health; health investment; neurodevelopment; quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 85109486182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15589544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1558-9544.1237     Document Type: Article

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