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Title: Long-Term Poverty, Children's Nutritional Status and Growth in the U.S.
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Miller, Jane E. Korenman, Sanders D. |
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Long-Term Poverty, Children's Nutritional Status and Growth in the U.S. Presented: Cincinnati, OH, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1993 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birthweight; Child Health; Children; Height; Height, Height-Weight Ratios; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Nutritional Status/Nutrition/Consumption Behaviors; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT); Poverty; Verbal Memory (McCarthy Scale); Weight Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate relations among poverty nutritional status and growth of children under age five in the U.S. Long-term (10-year) poverty measures are shown to be more strongly related than short-term measures to the prevalence of "stunting" (low height-for-age) and "wasting" (low weight-for-height). Children from chronically poor families are about 40 percent more likely to be stunted and about 45 percent more likely to be wasted than children from middle income families. Both small size at birth and slower growth after birth appear to contribute to the poor nutritional status of low income children. In our sample, over 10 percent of infants born to chronically poor women are low birthweight compared to only 4.5 percent of infants born to middle-income women. Low-income children also exhibit slower rates of growth in both height and weight. We also estimate multivariate models in order to shed light on the mechanisms whereby long term poverty leads to poor nutritional status among young children. |
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Miller, Jane E. and Sanders D. Korenman. "Long-Term Poverty, Children's Nutritional Status and Growth in the U.S." Presented: Cincinnati, OH, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1993. |