Weather shocks and child nutrition: Evidence from Tanzania

Nsabimana, Aimable; Mensah, Justice

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2020/814-6

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“…Consistent with other studies (Deschênes & Greenstone, 2011;Nsabimana & Mensah, 2020;Ogasawara & Yumitori, 2019), our identification strategy is based on the unpredictability and plausibly randomness of weather shocks. However, there are several potential concerns related to this identification strategy, namely selective migration, selective mortality/fetal loss due to cold shocks (Aguero, 2014;Deschênes & Greenstone, 2011), and fertility selection.…”

Section: In Utero Exposure To Weather Shocks and Child Growthmentioning

confidence: 61%

“…Other potential channels discussed in the literature include shocks to agricultural productivity. Similarly, extreme cold weather conditions can negatively affect agricultural productivity, affect the availability and cost of nutritional foods, and limit family resources/income (Freudenreich et al., 2022; Freudenreich et al., 2022; Nsabimana & Mensah, 2020; Ogasawara & Yumitori, 2019). In this paper, we test some of the potential mechanisms through which cold weather affects children's growth.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…C is a vector of other climatic covariates, average rainfall (average level of precipitation), and severity of drought (Palmer drought severity index). We control for these variables based on recent empirical studies that show a strong link between weather shocks, agricultural activity, and health outcomes (Dell et al., 2014; Nsabimana & Mensah, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With a total area of 945,087 square kilometers, Tanzania lies between 1 and 12° latitude (south) and between 30 and 40° longitude (east). Agriculture being the dominant sector provides livelihoods and employment to over 73 and 22% of rural and urban population and contributes to about 25% of the country's GDP (NBS, 2016). The agroecology in Tanzania substantially varies from that in the coastal lowlands, arid, plateaus, to highlands with different types of soils and climates (Mkonda, 2021; URT, 2019; URT-UNEP-GEF, 2007), with maize being the main stable crops grown and consumed as well as the main source of calories (33% of the total) (Minot, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Early life exposure to cold weather shocks and growth stunting: Evidence from Tanzania

Hongoli,

Hahn

2023

Health Economics

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This study examines the effects of early life and in utero exposure to cold weather shocks on the incidence of growth stunting for children under age five in Tanzania. We find that an increase of 10 percentage points in the proportion of days with temperatures below 15 degrees Celsius (one standard deviation below the long‐term average) is associated with an increase in the probability of stunting and severe stunting by 2.0 and 1.4 percentage points (equivalent to 5.5 and 9.7 percent of the mean stunting and severe stunting), respectively. The results also show strong effects of in utero exposure during the second trimester of pregnancy on child stunting and wasting. In terms of the mechanisms, we find that the effects on disease environment, food insecurity, and reduced agricultural productivity are the possible channels driving the results.

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Section: In Utero Exposure To Weather Shocks and Child Growthmentioning

confidence: 61%

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Early life exposure to cold weather shocks and growth stunting: Evidence from Tanzania

Hongoli,

Hahn

2023

Health Economics

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“…Further, the literature has also documented the direct association between child nutrition and agricultural farm input use and the weather patterns especially in developing countries where both rural and urban household livelihood depends enormously on agriculture [ 46 , 47 ]. The highest level of stunting in Nyarugenge district despite the lowest level of poverty could also be explained by possible inequalities in wealth distribution as already discussed above on annual household income.…”

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Economic attributes and childhood stunting in Rwanda: case study of the City of Kigali

Nzayirambaho¹,

Nsabimana²,

Manirakiza³

et al. 2022

Pan Afr Med J

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Introduction stunting in under five children is a great concern in low and middle-income countries including Rwanda. While over the past decades different developing countries have made remarkable efforts improving their economic growth, there is mixed evidence and lack of consensus on the impact of economic development on nutrition improvement. The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between economic attributes and childhood stunting in the City of Kigali. Methods this was a retrospective cross-sectional and comparative study documenting the period 2010-2017. Stunting in under five children was analyzed in relation to the economic attributes which include the household consumption per capita, annual household income and level of poverty. The analysis was done at the level of district. Official reports from the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda provided data on both economic attributes and stunting. Results in some situations, the improvements in economic attributes such as increase in average household consumption per capita and increase in annual household income are followed by the reduction of stunting in under five children. However, in some other situations, the reduction of the level of poverty and the increase of annual household income was not translated into the reduction of stunting. Conclusion improvements in some economic attributes do not necessarily translate into reduction of stunting in under five children. Further studies are needed to understand possible lead forces underlying this situation including establishing the proportion of household income spent on children´s nutrition as well as possible inequity and inequality in wealth distribution.

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Rainfall, mothers’ time use, and child nutrition: evidence from rural Uganda

Boyd

2023

Popul Environ

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Weather shocks and child nutrition: Evidence from Tanzania

Abstract: This study has been prepared within the project Sustainable development solutions for Tanzania -strengthening research to achieve SDGs funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

Early life exposure to cold weather shocks and growth stunting: Evidence from Tanzania

Early life exposure to cold weather shocks and growth stunting: Evidence from Tanzania

Economic attributes and childhood stunting in Rwanda: case study of the City of Kigali

Rainfall, mothers’ time use, and child nutrition: evidence from rural Uganda

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