Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?

The fact that nutrition affects education outcomes is accepted by researchers and by policy makers. It is simple. Children cannot learn if they are hungry. The validity of the empirical approaches used to show a causal relationship from nutrition to education is an issue of debate. The presence of u...

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Main Author: Rabassa, Mariano
Other Authors: Gasparini, Leonardo
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10915/3352
http://www.depeco.econo.unlp.edu.ar/maestria/tesis/025-tesis-rabassa.pdf
http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3352