Anemia and Child Education

The Case of Colombia

Bibliographic Data

ID6166690
AuthorsAlejandro Gaviria (Universidad de los Andes), Alejandro Hoyos (Universidad de los Andes)
Year2011
Issue68
Pages47-77
Publication date2011-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Desarrollo y Sociedad (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0120-3584 • E-ISSN: 1900-7760
PublisherUniversidad de los Andes (PUBLISHER • VE)
DOI10.13043/dys.68.2
OpenAlexW2139117720
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

Welfare programs in Colombia have focused on both reducing malnutrition and hunger and increasing school attendance. But there is not much evidence on the hypothesized relationship between nutrition status and schooling outcomes. Using the National Survey of Nutritional Status in Colombia — 2005 (ENSIN) and the Demographic and Health Survey — 2005 (DHS), this paper estimates the impact of nutrition on schooling outcomes. The results suggest that anemic children have a higher probability of being overage in school. Malnutrition, defined by anthropometric measures, does not have an impact on the probability of being overage. School attendance seems to be unrelated to nutrition measures. The results are consistent under different specifications

Anemia · Anthropometry · Attendance · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Malnutrition · Nutrition Education · Political science · Sociology · Welfare · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Gerontology

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