Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/229281 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2020/57
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
child nutrition
Tanzania
weather shocks
JEL: 
I15
Q54
O13
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ISBN: 
978-92-9256-814-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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