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This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of child health, growth in height, drawing on a unique household panel data set from rural Zimbabwe. We find that children aged 12 to 24 months lose 1.5-2 cm of growth in the aftermath of a drought. Catch-up growth in these children is limited so that this growth faltering has a permanent effect. By contrast, there is no evidence that older children experience a slowdown in growth. There is some evidence that the loss in growth is unequally distributed with children residing in poorer households and offspring of women who are daughters of the household head appearing to be especially vulnerable. Copyright 2001 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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Article provided by Department of Economics, University of Oxford in its journal Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics .
Volume (Year): 63 (2001)
Issue (Month): 4 (September)
Pages: 409-36
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