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Adolescent mothers’ anthropometrics and grandmothers’ schooling predict infant anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam

author(s) Schott, W. - Aurino, E. - Penny, M.E.. - Behrman, J. R.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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themes
regions
  • South-Eastern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
  • Northern Europe
  • Europe
  • South America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Americas
  • Southern Asia
  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
citation

Whitney Schott, Elisabetta Aurino, Mary E. Penny, Jere R. Behrman; Adolescent mothers’ anthropometrics and grandmothers’ schooling predict infant anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (0077-8923) yr:2018 vol:1416 iss:1 pg:86 -106

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Abstract

This study investigated intergenerational associations of adolescent mothers’ and grandmothers’ anthropometrics and schooling with adolescent mothers’ offspring’s anthropometrics in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam. Young Lives is an international study of childhood poverty, following the lives of 12,000 children in 4 countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam) over 15 years. Young Lives is funded by the UK Department for International Development

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