Children's growth and poverty in rural Guatemala

摘要: The author investigates the extent and determinants of poor child health nutrition in rural Guatemala, as reflected attained height. Exploiting a rich data set on relevant social, economic, ethnic, geographic characteristics, he estimates role played by exogeneous individual, household, community covariates shaping differentials children's Then addresses empirical questions ignored previous anthropometric research, such distribution stunting across communities magnitude intra-family correlation height-for-age outcomes, before after controlling for observed covariates. are guided economic model family proximate framework. fits multilevel models to hierarchically clustered control heterogeneity. His results confirm findings from suggesting that growth outcomes Guatemala result widespread poverty. He finds between children latino mothers indigenous who do not speak Spanish larger among living with better care facilities. Estimates derived reveal much clustering within families communities. account most community-level variation patterns, but explain only half overall correlation.