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Cereal Prices and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia

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  • Paul Brenton
  • Mike Nyawo

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This paper looks at how changing cereal prices affect child undernutrition in Ethiopia. It derives height for age (stunting) and weight for height (wasting) as indicators of child undernutrition from the two most recent years of the Living Standards Measurement Survey and utilises market prices for key cereals, teff, wheat, and maize in enumeration areas across all regions of the country. Using a panel data fixed effects model, the analysis finds that, contrary to previous studies, rising cereal prices are positively associated with improved child stunting rates for children between ages 6 months and 5 years. There is no evidence to suggest that cereal prices have a significantly greater impact on height for age for children that come from households who are net sellers of these crops. Cereal prices do not appear to be associated with wasting, which is a short-term negative health outcome.

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  • Paul Brenton & Mike Nyawo, 2021. "Cereal Prices and Child Undernutrition in Ethiopia," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 57(12), pages 2045-2062, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:57:y:2021:i:12:p:2045-2062
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2021.1939862
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    1. Mkupete Jaah Mkupete & Dieter Von Fintel & Ronelle Burger, 2022. "Decomposing inequality of opportunity in child health in Tanzania: The role of access to water and sanitation," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 31(11), pages 2465-2480, November.

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