Prenatal Seasonality, Child Growth, and Schooling Investments : Evidence from Rural Indonesia

This article examines the impacts of prenatal conditions on child growth using recent data from Indonesia. There is seasonality in birthweight: this measure is significantly higher immediately after the main rice harvest in the country. The empirical results show that an increase in birthweight impr...

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Main Author: Yamauchi, Futoshi
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13359