Early life height and weight production functions with endogenous energy and protein inputs

no code implementations • 6 Apr 2022 • Esteban Puentes, Fan Wang, Jere R. Behrman, Flávio Cunha, John Hoddinott, John A. Maluccio, Linda S. Adair, Judith B. Borja, Reynaldo Martorell, Aryeh D. Stein

We examine effects of protein and energy intakes on height and weight growth for children between 6 and 24 months old in Guatemala and the Philippines.

You are what your parents expect: Height and local reference points

no code implementations • 5 Apr 2022 • Fan Wang, Esteban Puentes, Jere R. Behrman, Flávio Cunha

We explore the exogenous variation in reference height produced by a protein-supplementation experiment in Guatemala to estimate our model's parameters.