Why Are Indian Children So Short?
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- Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande, 2015. "Why Are Indian Children So Short?," CID Working Papers 292, Center for International Development at Harvard University.
- Jayachandran, Seema & Pande, Rohini, 2015. "Why Are Indian Children So Short," Working Paper Series rwp15-016, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- Seema Jayachandran & Rohini Pande, 2015. "Why Are Indian Children So Short?," NBER Working Papers 21036, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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development; economic growth; height; malnutrition; microeconomics;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D10 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - General
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- 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-EVO-2015-03-27 (Evolutionary Economics)
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