The effect of early age stunting on cognitive achievement among children in Vietnam

In this paper, we use a longitudinal data set that follows three thousand children in Vietnam to study the economic significance of childhood poverty–cognitive achievement nexus. Focusing on the consequences of stunting, we look at height-for-age z-score (HAZ), and trace the impact of HAZ on child c...

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Main Author: Duc, L
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Young Lives 2009
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