Weather shocks and child nutrition: Evidence from Tanzania

Arbeitspapier

In this paper, we examine the relationship between childhood exposure to adverse weather shocks and nutritional and health outcomes of children in Tanzania. Using household panel data matched with spatially disaggregated data on weather shocks, we exploit the plausibly exogenous variations in the exposure to weather shocks to estimate the relationship. Our results reveal a positive association between exposure to dry weather shocks and stunting among children. The effects are profound in the first 12 months after childbirth. The findings, however, indicate that wet shocks such as flooding have no discernible impact on child health.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-92-9256-814-6
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: WIDER Working Paper ; No. 2020/57

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Health and Economic Development ; Climate; Natural Disasters and Their Management; Global Warming ; Economic Development: Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products
• Thema: child nutrition ; Tanzania ; weather shocks

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nsabimana, Aimable ; Mensah, Justice Tei
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2020

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2020/814-6
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/229281
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ