Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper examines the impacts of prenatal conditions and water quality on child growth using recent data from Indonesia. Our empirical results show that an increase in birthweight has significant positive effects on children's subsequent height and weight-for-age z scores, whereas an improvement i...
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Japan International Cooperation Agency
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| author | Yamauchi, Futoshi Higuchi, Katsuhiko Suhaeti, Rita Nur |
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| description | This paper examines the impacts of prenatal conditions and water quality on child growth using recent data from Indonesia. Our empirical results show that an increase in birthweight has significant positive effects on children's subsequent height and weight-for-age z scores, whereas an improvement in drinking water quality, as measured by coliform bacteria count, increases the weight-for-height z score. Interestingly, there is seasonality in birthweight; this measure is significantly higher during the dry season than during the rainy season, and is also higher in a Christian-majority province than in Muslim-majority provinces, during the period shortly after Ramadan. Finally, the availability of modern water infrastructure improves the quality of drinking water. These findings show that interactions of environmental variations affect early childhood human capital formation and can have long-term impacts on their outcomes. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1545222025-12-08T10:29:22Z Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia Yamauchi, Futoshi Higuchi, Katsuhiko Suhaeti, Rita Nur seasonality child growth drinking water birth weight This paper examines the impacts of prenatal conditions and water quality on child growth using recent data from Indonesia. Our empirical results show that an increase in birthweight has significant positive effects on children's subsequent height and weight-for-age z scores, whereas an improvement in drinking water quality, as measured by coliform bacteria count, increases the weight-for-height z score. Interestingly, there is seasonality in birthweight; this measure is significantly higher during the dry season than during the rainy season, and is also higher in a Christian-majority province than in Muslim-majority provinces, during the period shortly after Ramadan. Finally, the availability of modern water infrastructure improves the quality of drinking water. These findings show that interactions of environmental variations affect early childhood human capital formation and can have long-term impacts on their outcomes. 2010 2024-10-01T14:02:03Z 2024-10-01T14:02:03Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154522 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161897 Limited Access Japan International Cooperation Agency Yamauchi, Futoshi; Higuchi, Katsuhiko; Suhaeti, Rita Nur. 2010. Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia. Tokyo, Japan: Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute. |
| spellingShingle | seasonality child growth drinking water birth weight Yamauchi, Futoshi Higuchi, Katsuhiko Suhaeti, Rita Nur Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia |
| title | Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia |
| title_full | Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia |
| title_fullStr | Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia |
| title_short | Impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth: Evidence from Indonesia |
| title_sort | impact of prenatal and environmental factors on child growth evidence from indonesia |
| topic | seasonality child growth drinking water birth weight |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154522 |
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