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Maternal height and child health and schooling in sub-Saharan Africa : Decomposition and heterogeneity

Karlsson, Omar LU and Dribe, Martin LU (2022) In Social Science & Medicine 315.
Abstract
Maternal height is associated with mortality and anthropometry in low-and-middle-income countries. This paper explored residual associations and potential underlying mechanisms linking maternal height to several child outcomes using regression models with neighborhood and half-sibling fixed effects and Gelbach decomposition on 108 Demographic and Health Surveys from 37 sub-Saharan African countries. When adjusting for time of birth, twinning, sex, and survey, a single z-score (6.5 cm) increase in mother's height was associated with a 22% reduction in the average deficit in height-for-age among children under five (according to the WHO 2006 growth standard), 16% lower neonatal mortality (age
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Sub-Saharan Africa, Maternal height, School attendance, Neonatal mortality, Postneonatal mortality, Gelbach decomposition
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Social Science & Medicine
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315
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115480
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Elsevier
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1873-5347
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10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115480
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