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Kebede, Bereket 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4163-6614
(2005)
Genetic endowments, parental and child health in rural Ethiopia.
Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 52 (2).
pp. 194-221.
ISSN 0036-9292
Abstract
The determinants of long-term child health in Ethiopia – as measured by height-for-age z-scores – are examined controlling for community, household and individual level heterogeneity. The influence of parental health and the role of genetics are analysed. The height of parents is highly significant but no significant correlation with per capita expenditures is found. Food prices, birth order, sex and age of children, number of siblings of the mother, years of marriage and altitude are important determinants. Deprivations in later years are more important than during pre- or neo-natal periods. Genetic inheritance seems to explain the correlations between child and parental health.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > School of International Development |
| Depositing User: | Vishal Gautam |
| Date Deposited: | 01 May 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 17 May 2023 00:01 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/16502 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.0036-9292.2005.00341.x |
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