School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
J Biosoc Sci. 2011 Jul;43(4):437-51. doi: 10.1017/S0021932011000149. Epub 2011 Mar 30.
This paper examines the impact of childhood malnutrition on schooling performance in rural Bangladesh. The results reveal that malnourished children are less likely to enrol in school on time and achieve an age-appropriate grade by 26 percentage points and 31 percentage points, respectively. Other important determinants of schooling outcomes include infrastructure and education level of parents. One major contribution of this paper is the control for the endogeneity of malnutrition status, which otherwise might lead to bias estimates.
本文考察了孟加拉国农村地区儿童营养不良对上学表现的影响。结果表明，营养不良的儿童按时入学的可能性分别降低了 26 个百分点，达到相应年龄应读年级的可能性降低了 31 个百分点。上学成果的其他重要决定因素包括基础设施和父母的教育水平。本文的一个主要贡献是控制了营养不良状况的内生性，否则这可能导致有偏估计。
