This paper uses data on the height, weight, age and grade level of over 3000 children in five quite different locations to measure the impact of the nutritional variables on the available measure of school performance. Children tend to be about one grade further behind in rural areas than in the provincial capitals, and about one-half a grade further behind in the provicial capitals than in Beijing. Even after controlling for location, however, lower...
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1986/01/01
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Article de revue
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REP393
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2010/07/12
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Disclosed
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Child malnutrition and school performance in China
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school performance