Martin Dribe
Professor
Maternal height and child health and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa : Decomposition and heterogeneity
Author
Summary, in English
Maternal height is associated with mortality and anthropometry in low-and-middle-income countries. This paper explored residual associations and potential underlying mechanisms linking maternal height to several child outcomes using regression models with neighborhood and half-sibling fixed effects and Gelbach decomposition on 108 Demographic and Health Surveys from 37 sub-Saharan African countries. When adjusting for time of birth, twinning, sex, and survey, a single z-score (6.5 cm) increase in mother's height was associated with a 22% reduction in the average deficit in height-for-age among children under five (according to the WHO 2006 growth standard), 16% lower neonatal mortality (age
Department/s
- Centre for Economic Demography
- Department of Economic History
Publishing year
2022-11-23
Language
English
Publication/Series
Social Science & Medicine
Volume
315
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Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Elsevier
Topic
- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Keywords
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Maternal height
- School attendance
- Neonatal mortality
- Postneonatal mortality
- Gelbach decomposition
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1873-5347