Adolescent mothers’ anthropometrics and grandmothers’ schooling predict infant anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

This study uses data for the Young Lives study

From:
Department for International Development
Published
24 October 2017
Country:
Ethiopia, India, Peru, Vietnam
Document Type:
Journal Article
Theme:
Education, Food and Nutrition
Authors:
Schott, W, Aurino, E, Penny, M.E., Behrman, J. R.

Abstract

This study investigated intergenerational associations of adolescent mothers’ and grandmothers’ anthropometrics and schooling with adolescent mothers’ offspring’s anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam.

Young Lives is an international study of childhood poverty, following the lives of 12,000 children in 4 countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) over 15 years. Young Lives is funded by the UK Department for International Development.

Citation

Whitney Schott, Elisabetta Aurino, Mary E. Penny, Jere R. Behrman; Adolescent mothers’ anthropometrics and grandmothers’ schooling predict infant anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences [0077-8923] yr:2018 vol:1416 iss:1 pg:86 -106

Adolescent mothers’ anthropometrics and grandmothers’ schooling predict infant anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

Published 24 October 2017
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