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Effects of Birth Order on Child Nutritional Status

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dc.contributor.author Maha Khan
dc.date.accessioned 2015-10-26T10:38:13Z
dc.date.available 2015-10-26T10:38:13Z
dc.date.issued 2014
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/14051
dc.description PP.83; ill en_US
dc.description.abstract Birth order and the associated parental discrimination are evidenced to detrimentally affect a child’s long-term nutritional status. This research explores the in depth role of birth order in determining child nutritional status through a between- and intra- family analysis of stunting, wasting, and underweight in children. It further tries to evaluate whether the child’s height-for-age varies with gender; and if the drop off in height with each additional birth order can be attributed to pre and post natal health disinvestments in pregnancies and births. The Punjab Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey for 2011, a household-level dataset gathered by the Punjab Bureau of Statistics, provides our sample data. The results of this study imply that birth order has negative effects on child health, with child height and weight gradient monotonically declining with increasing birth order children. Moreover, birth order effects become stronger in larger families, even after controlling for birth spacing. Yet, we find only limited evidence of gender based postnatal disinvestment on mothers in household fixed effects regressions, while no gender specific effects were observed for child health investments. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher © Lahore School of Economics en_US
dc.subject Birth order en_US
dc.subject child health en_US
dc.subject nutritional status en_US
dc.subject parental preferences en_US
dc.subject mother-fixed effects en_US
dc.subject health investments en_US
dc.title Effects of Birth Order on Child Nutritional Status en_US
dc.type Thesis en_US


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