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Height in mid childhood and psychosocial competencies in late childhood : evidence from four developing countries
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We use longitudinal data from children growing up in four developing countries (Peru, India, Vietnam, Ethiopia) to study the relationship between height at the age of 7 to 8 and a set of psychosocial competencies measured at the age of 11 to 12 that are known to be correlated with earnings during adulthood: self-efficacy, self-esteem and aspirations. Results show that a one standard deviation increase in height-for-age tends to increase self-efficacy, self-esteem and aspirations by 10.4%, 6.4% and 5.1%, respectively. We argue that these findings are likely to be informing of an underlying relationship between undernutrition and the formation of non-cognitive skills.
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1016/j.ehb.2013.04.001
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- Dercon, S
- Sanchez, A
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- R8544
- R8544
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
- Journal:
- Economics and Human Biology More from this journal
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 426-432
- Publication date:
- 2013-12-01
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- Accepted manuscript
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1570-677X
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English
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- 2013
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- Copyright Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is the authors' version of a work that was accepted for publication in Economics and Human Biology. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Economics and Human Biology, Vol 11, Issue 4, December 2013. DOI 10.1016/j.ehb.2013.04.001
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