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Anemia and Child Education: The Case of Colombia

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  • Alejandro Gaviria
  • Alejandro Hoyos

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Welfare programs in Colombia have been focused on reducing malnutrition and hunger and on increasing school attendance rates. However, there is not much evidence on the hypothesized relationship between nutrition and education. Using the National Survey of Nutritional Status in Colombia - 2005 (ENSIN) and the Demographic and Health Survey -2005 (DHS), this paper estimates the impact of nutrition on schooling outcomes. The results suggest that anemic children have a higher probability of lagging behind in school. Malnutrition, defined by anthropometric measures, does not have an impact on schooling lags. School attendance seems to be unrelated to nutrition measures. The results are consistent under different specifications.

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  • Alejandro Gaviria & Alejandro Hoyos, 2010. "Anemia and Child Education: The Case of Colombia," Documentos CEDE 7610, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
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    1. Alejandro Mosiño & Karen P. Villagómez-Estrada & Alberto Prieto-Patrón, 2020. "Association between School Performance and Anemia in Adolescents in Mexico," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(5), pages 1-17, February.
    2. Alcazar, Lorena, 2013. "The economic impact of anaemia in Peru," Libros, Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE), edition 1, number 2013-1-en.
    3. Jaime Bonet-Morón & Lucas Wilfried Hahn-De-Castro, 2017. "La mortalidad y desnutrición infantil en La Guajira," Documentos de Trabajo Sobre Economía Regional y Urbana 15541, Banco de la República, Economía Regional.
    4. Karina Acosta-Ordonez, 2015. "Nutrición y desarrollo en el Pacífico colombiano," Documentos de Trabajo Sobre Economía Regional y Urbana 13315, Banco de la República, Economía Regional.
    5. Ray, Rita, 2020. "Mother’s autonomy and child anemia: A case study from India," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 112(C).

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    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development

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