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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| description | 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 cognitive achievement independent of the source of HAZ’s variation - whether it comes from the variation in child characteristics at birth and the environmental factors, or in the household characteristics (stature, socioeconomic status, etc.). An increase by a standard deviation of HAZ at the age of one expectedly leads to an increase by one fourth of a standard deviation of the log score in a widely-used test of language ability at the age of five. For a quantitative cognitive achievement test, the corresponding figure is 0.20. Our evidence suggests that some of the disadvantages in socioeconomic status are being transmitted across generations. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:7a69a3bb-d32b-44e5-8edc-cb58f02cff8a2022-03-26T20:43:59ZThe effect of early age stunting on cognitive achievement among children in VietnamWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:7a69a3bb-d32b-44e5-8edc-cb58f02cff8aChildren and youthSocial disadvantageHouseholdsHealth and health policyFamiliesFamilies,children and childcarePovertyEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetYoung Lives2009Duc, LIn 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 cognitive achievement independent of the source of HAZ’s variation - whether it comes from the variation in child characteristics at birth and the environmental factors, or in the household characteristics (stature, socioeconomic status, etc.). An increase by a standard deviation of HAZ at the age of one expectedly leads to an increase by one fourth of a standard deviation of the log score in a widely-used test of language ability at the age of five. For a quantitative cognitive achievement test, the corresponding figure is 0.20. Our evidence suggests that some of the disadvantages in socioeconomic status are being transmitted across generations. |
| spellingShingle | Children and youth Social disadvantage Households Health and health policy Families Families,children and childcare Poverty Duc, L The effect of early age stunting on cognitive achievement among children in Vietnam |
| title | The effect of early age stunting on cognitive achievement among children in Vietnam |
| title_full | The effect of early age stunting on cognitive achievement among children in Vietnam |
| title_fullStr | The effect of early age stunting on cognitive achievement among children in Vietnam |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of early age stunting on cognitive achievement among children in Vietnam |
| title_short | The effect of early age stunting on cognitive achievement among children in Vietnam |
| title_sort | effect of early age stunting on cognitive achievement among children in vietnam |
| topic | Children and youth Social disadvantage Households Health and health policy Families Families,children and childcare Poverty |
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