Identifying Catch-Up Trajectories in Child Growth : New Methods with Evidence from Young Lives

Identifying Catch-Up Trajectories in Child Growth : New Methods with Evidence from Young Lives

Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper distinguishes between catch-up in the mean of a group toward that of a healthy reference population versus catch-up within the group, ass...

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Main Authors: Jones, Sam, Behrman, Jere R., Dang, Hai-Anh H., Anand, Paul
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
CHILD HEALTH
EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT
DEMOGRAPHICS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/651561519323236232/Identifying-catch-up-trajectories-in-child-growth-new-methods-with-evidence-from-young-lives
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29413

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/651561519323236232/Identifying-catch-up-trajectories-in-child-growth-new-methods-with-evidence-from-young-lives
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29413

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