Four Essays on Health and Nutrition of Indian Women and Children / vorgelegt von Rajesh Kumar Rai

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....

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

Göttingen: 2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Rai, Rajesh Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Vollmer, Sebastian [Akademische/r BetreuerIn]
Strulik, Holger [Akademische/r BetreuerIn]
Subramanian, S. [Akademische/r BetreuerIn]

Hochschulschrift:

Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2022, Kumulative Dissetation

Links:

Volltext [kostenfrei]
Volltext [kostenfrei]
d-nb.info [kostenfrei]

Themen:

Anaemia
Anthropometric failure
Anthropometry
Child anaemia
Child mortality
Epidemiology
Hochschulschrift
India
Instrumental variable
Iron-and-folic-acid
Iron-deficiency anaemia
Micronutrients
Nutrition
Public Health
Quasi-experiment
Social determinants of health
Undernutrition
Vitamin A
Youth

Umfang:

1 Online-Ressource ; Illustrationen, Diagramme

Weitere IDs:

urn:nbn:de:gbv:7-ediss-14272-7

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

1818167484