Economic shocks at birth have lasting effects on children's health several years after the shock. The authors calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. They exploit district and time variation in crop failure and civil conflict to measure the impact of exogenous shocks that children experience at birth on their height several years later. They...
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2007/04/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4208
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2010/07/01
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Civil war, crop failure, and child stunting in Rwanda
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crop failure
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