The nutritional returns to parental education
Though parental education is widely perceived to be an important determinant of child nutrition outcomes, there remain significant uncertainties about whether maternal or paternal education matters most, whether there are increasing or decreasing returns to parental education, and whether these retu...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2014
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| author | Alderman, Harold Headey, Derek D. |
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| description | Though parental education is widely perceived to be an important determinant of child nutrition outcomes, there remain significant uncertainties about whether maternal or paternal education matters most, whether there are increasing or decreasing returns to parental education, and whether these returns are robust given that recent gains in enrollment have not always translated into commensurate gains in learning outcomes. In this paper we investigate these questions through a statistical analysis of child growth data for approximately 99,000 children in 19 countries with some of the highest burdens of undernutrition. Pooling across countries, we find that maternal education yields larger returns than paternal education, although for both sexes positive returns generally only appear with secondary education. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1504042025-11-06T07:15:57Z The nutritional returns to parental education Alderman, Harold Headey, Derek D. education undernutrition stunting malnutrition nutrition children parents Though parental education is widely perceived to be an important determinant of child nutrition outcomes, there remain significant uncertainties about whether maternal or paternal education matters most, whether there are increasing or decreasing returns to parental education, and whether these returns are robust given that recent gains in enrollment have not always translated into commensurate gains in learning outcomes. In this paper we investigate these questions through a statistical analysis of child growth data for approximately 99,000 children in 19 countries with some of the highest burdens of undernutrition. Pooling across countries, we find that maternal education yields larger returns than paternal education, although for both sexes positive returns generally only appear with secondary education. 2014 2024-08-01T02:51:43Z 2024-08-01T02:51:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150404 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150512 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151162 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153937 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153654 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Alderman, Harold and Headey, Derek D. 2014. The nutritional returns to parental education. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1379. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150404 |
| spellingShingle | education undernutrition stunting malnutrition nutrition children parents Alderman, Harold Headey, Derek D. The nutritional returns to parental education |
| title | The nutritional returns to parental education |
| title_full | The nutritional returns to parental education |
| title_fullStr | The nutritional returns to parental education |
| title_full_unstemmed | The nutritional returns to parental education |
| title_short | The nutritional returns to parental education |
| title_sort | nutritional returns to parental education |
| topic | education undernutrition stunting malnutrition nutrition children parents |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150404 |
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