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Martin Dribe. Photo.

Martin Dribe

Professor, Centre director, Centre for Economic Demography

Martin Dribe. Photo.

Maternal height and child health and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa : Decomposition and heterogeneity

Author

  • Omar Karlsson
  • Martin Dribe

Summary, in English

Maternal height is associated with mortality and anthropometry in low-and-middle-income countries. This paper explored residual associations and potential underlying mechanisms linking maternal height to several child outcomes using regression models with neighborhood and half-sibling fixed effects and Gelbach decomposition on 108 Demographic and Health Surveys from 37 sub-Saharan African countries. When adjusting for time of birth, twinning, sex, and survey, a single z-score (6.5 cm) increase in mother's height was associated with a 22% reduction in the average deficit in height-for-age among children under five (according to the WHO 2006 growth standard), 16% lower neonatal mortality (age

Department/s

  • Centre for Economic Demography
  • Department of Economic History

Publishing year

2022-11-23

Language

English

Publication/Series

Social Science & Medicine

Volume

315

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Health Sciences

Keywords

  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Maternal height
  • School attendance
  • Neonatal mortality
  • Postneonatal mortality
  • Gelbach decomposition

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1873-5347