Caste Differences in Child Growth: Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects
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Keywords
Height for Age Z scores; Child Health; Health Disparities; India; Caste; National Family Health Surveys;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
- I15 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Economic Development
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2024-02-26 (Development)
- NEP-HEA-2024-02-26 (Health Economics)
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