Birth Spacing and Child Health Trajectories

被引:14
作者
Miller, Ray [1 ]
Karra, Mahesh [2 ]
机构
[1] Colorado State Univ, Dept Econ, Campus Delivery 1771, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA
[2] Boston Univ, Global Dev Policy, Frederick S Pardee Sch Global Studies, 152 Bay State Rd,Room G04C, Boston, MA 02215 USA
关键词
CATCH-UP GROWTH; INTERPREGNANCY INTERVAL; NUTRITIONAL-STATUS; RESOURCE DILUTION; LINEAR GROWTH; PRETERM BIRTH; EARLY-LIFE; DETERMINANTS; MORTALITY; PREGNANCY;
D O I
10.1111/padr.12335
中图分类号
C921 [人口统计学];
学科分类号
摘要
Using longitudinal data on a cohort of over 4,000 children from four low- and middle-income countries, we document the association between birth spacing and child growth trajectories. We find declines in child height at age 1 among children who are born within three years of an older sibling. However, we also observe catch-up growth for closely spaced children as they age. We find no evidence that catch-up growth is driven by remedial health investments after birth, suggesting substitutability in underlying biological processes. We also find that very widely spaced children (preceding birth interval of more than seven years) are similar in height at age 1 as children who are spaced three to seven years apart, but outgrow their more closely spaced counterparts as they age. However, further sibling comparisons suggest that the growth premium that is observed for very widely spaced children may be driven by unobserved confounding factors.
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页码:347 / 371
页数:25
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