Maternal height and child health and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: Decomposition and heterogeneity
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Sub-Saharan Africa; Maternal height; School attendance; Neonatal mortality; Postneonatal mortality; Height-for-age; Gelbach decomposition;All these keywords.
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