Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth : new methods with evidence from young lives (anglais)

Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper distinguishes between catch-up in the mean of a group toward that of a healthy reference population versus catch-up within the group, associated with a narrowing of the outcome distribution. In contrast to conventional empirical approaches based on dynamic panel models, the paper shows how catch-up can be tested via a latent growth framework...
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  • Jones,Sam;
    Behrman,Jere R.;
    Dang,Hai-Anh H.;
    Anand ,Paul;

  • 2018/02/22

  • Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques

  • WPS8353

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  • Monde,

  • Autres,

  • 2018/02/22

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