Growing and Learning When Consumption Is Seasonal: Long-Term Evidence From Tanzania.
This article shows that the seasonality of food consumption during childhood, conditional on average consumption, affects long-run human capital development. We develop a model that distinguishes differences in average consumption levels, seasonal fluctuations, and idiosyncratic shocks, and estimate...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 55; no. 3; pp. 1091 - 1119 |
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