Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal
Using data from the 1995–1996 and 2010–2011 rounds of the Nepal Living Standards Survey, we study the empirical connections between household food expenditure and nutrition outcomes of children below the age of five years using multilevel and dose-response function approaches. We also examine the ef...
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| author | Thapa, Ganesh B. Kumar, Anjani Joshi, Pramod Kumar |
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| description | Using data from the 1995–1996 and 2010–2011 rounds of the Nepal Living Standards Survey, we study the empirical connections between household food expenditure and nutrition outcomes of children below the age of five years using multilevel and dose-response function approaches. We also examine the effects of dietary quality changes on child nutrition improvement between 1995 and 2011 employing Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition. We find that number of food groups consumed, monthly food expenditure, dietary diversity, and the expenditure shares on fruits and vegetables and animal protein have a positive impact on the expected height-for-age Z-scores. The dietary changes explain about 71 percent of the improvement in those scores between 1995 and 2011, underscoring the importance of dietary quantity, dietary diversity, and nutrient-dense food items for child nutrition outcomes. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1477522025-11-06T07:26:06Z Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal Thapa, Ganesh B. Kumar, Anjani Joshi, Pramod Kumar impact household expenditure households malnutrition nutrition children food security diet Using data from the 1995–1996 and 2010–2011 rounds of the Nepal Living Standards Survey, we study the empirical connections between household food expenditure and nutrition outcomes of children below the age of five years using multilevel and dose-response function approaches. We also examine the effects of dietary quality changes on child nutrition improvement between 1995 and 2011 employing Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition. We find that number of food groups consumed, monthly food expenditure, dietary diversity, and the expenditure shares on fruits and vegetables and animal protein have a positive impact on the expected height-for-age Z-scores. The dietary changes explain about 71 percent of the improvement in those scores between 1995 and 2011, underscoring the importance of dietary quantity, dietary diversity, and nutrient-dense food items for child nutrition outcomes. 2017 2024-06-21T09:23:16Z 2024-06-21T09:23:16Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147752 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146264 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147886 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146249 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146415 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147444 application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Thapa, Ganesh; Kumar, Anjani; and Joshi, Pramod Kumar. 2017. Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1674. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147752 |
| spellingShingle | impact household expenditure households malnutrition nutrition children food security diet Thapa, Ganesh B. Kumar, Anjani Joshi, Pramod Kumar Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal |
| title | Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal |
| title_full | Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal |
| title_fullStr | Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal |
| title_full_unstemmed | Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal |
| title_short | Household food expenditure, dietary diversity, and child nutrition in Nepal |
| title_sort | household food expenditure dietary diversity and child nutrition in nepal |
| topic | impact household expenditure households malnutrition nutrition children food security diet |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147752 |
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