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The Nutrition-Learning Nexus: Evidence from Indonesia

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  • Maria C. Lo Bue

    (Georg-August-University Göttingen)

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This paper investigates the effect of nutritional status on subsequent educational achievements for a large sample of Indonesians children. I use a long term panel data set and apply a maternal fixed effect plus an instrumental variables estimator in order to control for possible correlation between some of the components of the error term and the main independent variable which will likely to cause a bias in the estimates. Differences in nutritional status between siblings are identified by using exposure in the earliest months of life to the drought associated with the Indonesian wildfires of late 1997. Estimation results show that health capital (measured by height-for-age z-scores at childhood) significantly and positively affects the number of completed grades of schooling and the score on cognitive test. Nevertheless, I only find little robust evidence of an effect on the readiness to enter school.

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  • Maria C. Lo Bue, 2015. "The Nutrition-Learning Nexus: Evidence from Indonesia," Courant Research Centre: Poverty, Equity and Growth - Discussion Papers 183, Courant Research Centre PEG.
    • Handle: RePEc:got:gotcrc:183
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    Keywords

    Educational achievement; child nutrition; siblings’ difference models; environmental shocks; Indonesia;
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East

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