Misreporting month of birth: Diagnosis and implications for research on nutrition and early childhood in developing countries
A large literature has used children’s birthdays to identify exposure to shocks and estimate their impacts on later outcomes. Using height-for-age z scores (HAZ) for more than 990,000 children in 62 countries from 163 Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), we show how random errors in birth dates cre...
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Springer
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145436 |
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