Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa

While nutritional intake in early childhood provides the basis for a child’s health capital, investments in schooling provide the basis for a child’s knowledge capital. That store of knowledge, in turn, will eventually be rewarded in the labor market. Does the good health built up by the child in hi...

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Autor principal: Yamauchi, Futoshi
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160391
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description While nutritional intake in early childhood provides the basis for a child’s health capital, investments in schooling provide the basis for a child’s knowledge capital. That store of knowledge, in turn, will eventually be rewarded in the labor market. Does the good health built up by the child in his early years affect his educational achievement and his future success? This paper addresses that question based on panel data from South Africa.
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spelling CGSpace1603912025-02-19T14:03:03Z Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa Yamauchi, Futoshi children nutrition evaluation households economic aspects gender human capital education anthropometry While nutritional intake in early childhood provides the basis for a child’s health capital, investments in schooling provide the basis for a child’s knowledge capital. That store of knowledge, in turn, will eventually be rewarded in the labor market. Does the good health built up by the child in his early years affect his educational achievement and his future success? This paper addresses that question based on panel data from South Africa. 2006 2024-11-21T09:50:40Z 2024-11-21T09:50:40Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160391 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Yamauchi, Futoshi. Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa. FCND Discussion Paper Brief. 203. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160391
spellingShingle children
nutrition
evaluation
households
economic aspects
gender
human capital
education
anthropometry
Yamauchi, Futoshi
Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa
title Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa
title_full Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa
title_fullStr Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa
title_full_unstemmed Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa
title_short Early childhood nutrition, schooling, and sibling inequality in a dynamic context: evidence from South Africa
title_sort early childhood nutrition schooling and sibling inequality in a dynamic context evidence from south africa
topic children
nutrition
evaluation
households
economic aspects
gender
human capital
education
anthropometry
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