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Four Essays on Health and Nutrition of Indian Women and Children

出版	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2022
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=dkyC0AEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This cumulative doctoral thesis consists of four research manuscripts (hereafter essays). Essay 1: Using a nationally representative dataset for India, this study sets up a quasi-experimental study design - instrumental variable (IV) approach to assess the causal effect of age of marriage among young women (aged 15-24 years) on their nutritional status. Age of menarche was used as an IV. Findings suggest that one year increase in age of marriage could yield two percentage point increase in underweight and six percentage points reduction in overweight, including obesity. Each year increase i...