Community Nurseries and the Nutritional Status of Poor Children. Evidence from Colombia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9716643
AutoresOrazio P Attanasio (University College London Institute for Fiscal Studies National Bureau of Economic Research), Orazio Attanasio (0000-0003-3693-4393, Institute for Fiscal Studies), Vincenzo Di Maro (World Bank), Marcos Vera‐hernández (0000-0003-4128-8883, University College London Institute for Fiscal Studies)
Año2013
Volumen123
Número571
Páginas1025-1058
Fecha de publicación2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Economic Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297
EditorialOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/ecoj.12020
OpenAlexW2122232158
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas42

We use two different data sets and three different instruments to estimate the impact of a long‐established pre‐school nursery programme on children's nutritional status. We use variables related to cost (fee, distance to the nursery) and programme availability (capacity of the programme in the town) as instruments. One of our data sets is representative of very poor individuals living in rural areas of Colombia, while the other focuses in urban areas and includes individuals relatively less poor. We find that programme participation increases children's height, with the size of the effect being consistent across the three instruments and the two data sets

Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Pre school · Socioeconomics · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology