Tall claims : mortality selection and the height of children, Vol. 1 of 1

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Tall claims : mortality selection and the height of children

Author:	Alderman, Harold; Lokshin, Michael; Radyakin, Sergiy;	Collection Title:	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5846
Country:	World;	Date Stored:	2011/10/18
Document Date:	2011/10/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	The World Region
Report Number:	WPS5846	SubTopics:	Health Monitoring & Evaluation; Population Policies; Youth and Governance; Adolescent Health; Early Child and Children's Health
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on childrenﾒs anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all children who died in the first three years of life were alive at the time of measurement. The simulations demonstrate that the difference in anthropometrics due to selective mortality would be large only if there were very large differences in anthropometrics between the children who died and those who survived. Differences of this size are not substantiated by the research on the degree of association between mortality and malnutrition. The study shows that although mortality risk is higher among malnourished children, selective mortality has only a minor impact on the measured nutritional status of children or on that status distinguished by gender.


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