Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel

This paper presents a simple simulation framework for understanding and analyzing vulnerability to stunting. We utilize Demographic and Health Surveys merged with satellite data on climatic shocks. Children aged 0–5 years are grouped into three categories: consistently stunted, vulnerable, and non-v...

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Main Authors:	Alfani, Federica, Dabalen, Andrew, Fisker, Peter, Molini, Vasco
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Elsevier 2020
Subjects:	STUNTING VULNERABILITY CLIMATIC SHOCK SAHEL
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33205

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spelling	okr-10986-332052021-05-25T10:54:39Z Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel Alfani, Federica Dabalen, Andrew Fisker, Peter Molini, Vasco STUNTING VULNERABILITY CLIMATIC SHOCK SAHEL This paper presents a simple simulation framework for understanding and analyzing vulnerability to stunting. We utilize Demographic and Health Surveys merged with satellite data on climatic shocks. Children aged 0–5 years are grouped into three categories: consistently stunted, vulnerable, and non-vulnerable. The first group constitutes those who are stunted and will also be stunted in any hypothetical period. Non-vulnerable are those whose likelihood to be stunted is zero. The vulnerable face a probability between 0 and 1 of being stunted. The probability is calculated as the share of years in which the child would be stunted, given the village level distribution of weather shocks over the period 2000–2013. We provide estimates of vulnerability to stunting in Burkina Faso, Northern Ghana, Mali, Northern Nigeria, and Senegal by aggregating over villages, districts and countries. 2020-01-21T19:59:08Z 2020-01-21T19:59:08Z 2019-02 Journal Article Food Policy 0306-9192 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33205 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Elsevier Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Burkina Faso Ghana Mali Nigeria Senegal
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topic	STUNTING VULNERABILITY CLIMATIC SHOCK SAHEL
spellingShingle	STUNTING VULNERABILITY CLIMATIC SHOCK SAHEL Alfani, Federica Dabalen, Andrew Fisker, Peter Molini, Vasco Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel
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description	This paper presents a simple simulation framework for understanding and analyzing vulnerability to stunting. We utilize Demographic and Health Surveys merged with satellite data on climatic shocks. Children aged 0–5 years are grouped into three categories: consistently stunted, vulnerable, and non-vulnerable. The first group constitutes those who are stunted and will also be stunted in any hypothetical period. Non-vulnerable are those whose likelihood to be stunted is zero. The vulnerable face a probability between 0 and 1 of being stunted. The probability is calculated as the share of years in which the child would be stunted, given the village level distribution of weather shocks over the period 2000–2013. We provide estimates of vulnerability to stunting in Burkina Faso, Northern Ghana, Mali, Northern Nigeria, and Senegal by aggregating over villages, districts and countries.
format	Journal Article
author	Alfani, Federica Dabalen, Andrew Fisker, Peter Molini, Vasco
author_facet	Alfani, Federica Dabalen, Andrew Fisker, Peter Molini, Vasco
author_sort	Alfani, Federica
title	Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel
title_short	Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel
title_full	Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel
title_fullStr	Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel
title_full_unstemmed	Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel
title_sort	vulnerability to stunting in the west african sahel
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2020
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33205
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Vulnerability to Stunting in the West African Sahel

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