The Impact of Improving Nutrition During Early Childhood on Education among Guatemalan Adults
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9703030 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John A Maluccio (0000-0003-1849-7759, Middlebury College), John Hoddinott (0000-0002-0590-3917, International Food Policy Research Institute), Jere R Behrman (0000-0001-7835-6283, University of Pennsylvania), Reynaldo Martorell (0000-0001-8862-7243, Emory University), Agnes Quisumbing (0000-0002-5429-1857, Middlebury College), Agnes R Quisumbing (Middlebury College), Aryeh D Stein (0000-0003-1138-6458, Emory University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 537 |
| Pages | 734-763 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2009.02220.x |
| OpenAlex | W2082047925 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 161 |
| References cited | 45 |
Using a longitudinal survey from rural Guatemala, we examine the effect of an early childhood nutritional intervention on adult educational outcomes. An intent-to-treat model yields substantial effects of an experimental intervention that provided highly nutritious food supplements to children, a quarter century after it ended: increases of 1.2 grades completed for women and one quarter SD on standardised reading comprehension and non-verbal cognitive ability tests for both women and men. Two-stage least squares results that endogenise the actual supplement intakes corroborate these magnitudes. Improving the nutrient intakes of very young children can have substantial, long-term, educational consequences. Copyright © The Author(s). Journal compilation © Royal Economic Society 2009
Cognition · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Educational attainment · Environmental health · Geography · Intervention (counseling · Longitudinal study · Quarter (Canadian coin · Reading (process · Reading comprehension · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Gerontology
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