International Migration and Nutritional Outcomes in Tajikistan

Tajikistan is the country with the largest share of remittances to GDP in the world. At the same time it suffers from stubbornly high levels of child malnutrition against which only very slow progress has been made. This paper investigates the relationship between international migration and child m...

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Main Authors:	Azzarri, Carlo, Zezza, Alberto
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120 International Migration F220 Remittances F240 Health Production I120 Demographic Trends and Forecasts General Migration J110 Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics Health Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4838

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spelling	okr-10986-48382021-04-23T14:02:19Z International Migration and Nutritional Outcomes in Tajikistan Azzarri, Carlo Zezza, Alberto Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120 International Migration F220 Remittances F240 Health Production I120 Demographic Trends and Forecasts General Migration J110 Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics Health Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360 Tajikistan is the country with the largest share of remittances to GDP in the world. At the same time it suffers from stubbornly high levels of child malnutrition against which only very slow progress has been made. This paper investigates the relationship between international migration and child malnutrition, using data from a recent nationally representative household survey. There are theoretical reasons to expect that migration may be exerting both positive and negative effects on nutrition and food security, so that understanding what the net effect may be is essentially an empirical question. Our results indicate that migration appears to be playing a positive role in enhancing child growth patterns (as measured by height-for-age z-scores) in the country. We explore some of the possible channels through which this effect might be operating and find that one such channel is by increasing households' kilocalorie consumption. 2012-03-30T07:29:59Z 2012-03-30T07:29:59Z 2011 Journal Article Food Policy 03069192 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4838 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Tajikistan
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topic	Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120 International Migration F220 Remittances F240 Health Production I120 Demographic Trends and Forecasts General Migration J110 Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics Health Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360
spellingShingle	Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120 International Migration F220 Remittances F240 Health Production I120 Demographic Trends and Forecasts General Migration J110 Fertility Family Planning Child Care INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS :: Children Youth J130 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: Consumer Economics Health Education and Training: Welfare, Income, Wealth, and Poverty P360 Azzarri, Carlo Zezza, Alberto International Migration and Nutritional Outcomes in Tajikistan
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description	Tajikistan is the country with the largest share of remittances to GDP in the world. At the same time it suffers from stubbornly high levels of child malnutrition against which only very slow progress has been made. This paper investigates the relationship between international migration and child malnutrition, using data from a recent nationally representative household survey. There are theoretical reasons to expect that migration may be exerting both positive and negative effects on nutrition and food security, so that understanding what the net effect may be is essentially an empirical question. Our results indicate that migration appears to be playing a positive role in enhancing child growth patterns (as measured by height-for-age z-scores) in the country. We explore some of the possible channels through which this effect might be operating and find that one such channel is by increasing households' kilocalorie consumption.
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author	Azzarri, Carlo Zezza, Alberto
author_facet	Azzarri, Carlo Zezza, Alberto
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title	International Migration and Nutritional Outcomes in Tajikistan
title_short	International Migration and Nutritional Outcomes in Tajikistan
title_full	International Migration and Nutritional Outcomes in Tajikistan
title_fullStr	International Migration and Nutritional Outcomes in Tajikistan
title_full_unstemmed	International Migration and Nutritional Outcomes in Tajikistan
title_sort	international migration and nutritional outcomes in tajikistan
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International Migration and Nutritional Outcomes in Tajikistan

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