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The Effect of Income on Child Nutrition in China
1Haibin Qiu and 2Yu Qiu
1Department of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China
2Department of Political Science and Economics, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea
Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology 2013 4:1144-1148
Received: June 11, 2012 | Accepted: July 09, 2012 | Published: February 01, 2013
Abstract
This study examines the determinants of child nutritional status in China, focusing specially on the household income effect. Data are drawn from China Health and Nutrition Survey, including 4 waves from 1991 to 2000. The empirical relationship between nutritional status and income, on the one hand and other effect factors like mother's height, maternal education, location (urban vs. rural, north vs. south) is investigated. Ordinary Least Squares, Random Effects, Fixed Effects and Instrumental Variables models are used, respectively. In the preferred model, a fixed effects model where income is instrumented, we find that the household income per capita shows no significant impact on the height-for-age z-scores.
Keywords:
Child, China, effect, income, nutrition,
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The authors have no competing interests.
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