Costly posturing: Relative status, ceremonies and early child development
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Keywords
Relative Status; Squeeze Effect; Nutrients Intake; Stunting; Underweight; Gender;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-TRA-2011-11-07 (Transition Economics)
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