Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?

Autores
Rabassa, Mariano
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
tesis de maestría
Estado
versión aceptada
Colaborador/a o director/a de tesis
Gasparini, Leonardo
Descripción
The fact that nutrition affects education outcomes is accepted by researchers and by policy makers. It is simple. Children cannot learn if they are hungry. The validity of the empirical approaches used to show a causal relationship from nutrition to education is an issue of debate. The presence of unobserved characteristics that influence both variables is the main concern of researchers. The goal of this paper is to study the possibility of overcoming these difficulties using the NHANES III (1988-1994), a cross-section data set with national representation in the US. A set of school outcomes and a dummy that accounts for the "food-insecurity" condition of each child's family are the central variables here. Based on a IVs procedure, it looks for variables that can be used as instruments for the "food-insecurity" condition. The preliminary results indicate that child's height and mother's body mass index are no good instruments to do so. Further research in needed to construct other variables that might turn to be good instruments for food-insecurity.
Magister en Economía
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
Materia
Ciencias Económicas
JEL: I2
Economía
Nutrición
Educación
Nivel de accesibilidad
acceso abierto
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spelling Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?Nutrición y rendimiento escolar: ¿es posible mostrar una relación causal usando datos de corte transversal?Rabassa, MarianoCiencias EconómicasJEL: I2EconomíaNutriciónEducaciónThe fact that nutrition affects education outcomes is accepted by researchers and by policy makers. It is simple. Children cannot learn if they are hungry. The validity of the empirical approaches used to show a causal relationship from nutrition to education is an issue of debate. The presence of unobserved characteristics that influence both variables is the main concern of researchers. The goal of this paper is to study the possibility of overcoming these difficulties using the NHANES III (1988-1994), a cross-section data set with national representation in the US. A set of school outcomes and a dummy that accounts for the "food-insecurity" condition of each child's family are the central variables here. Based on a IVs procedure, it looks for variables that can be used as instruments for the "food-insecurity" condition. The preliminary results indicate that child's height and mother's body mass index are no good instruments to do so. Further research in needed to construct other variables that might turn to be good instruments for food-insecurity.Magister en EconomíaUniversidad Nacional de La PlataFacultad de Ciencias EconómicasGasparini, Leonardo2003info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionTesis de maestriahttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_bdccinfo:ar-repo/semantics/tesisDeMaestriaapplication/pdfhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3352https://doi.org/10.35537/10915/3352enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/http://www.depeco.econo.unlp.edu.ar/maestria/tesis/025-tesis-rabassa.pdfinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)reponame:SEDICI (UNLP)instname:Universidad Nacional de La Platainstacron:UNLP2026-04-15T10:57:49Zoai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/3352Institucionalhttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/Universidad públicaNo correspondehttp://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/oai/snrdalira@sedici.unlp.edu.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:13292026-04-15 10:57:54.027SEDICI (UNLP) - Universidad Nacional de La Platafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?
Nutrición y rendimiento escolar: ¿es posible mostrar una relación causal usando datos de corte transversal?
title Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?
spellingShingle Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?
Rabassa, Mariano
Ciencias Económicas
JEL: I2
Economía
Nutrición
Educación
title_short Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?
title_full Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?
title_fullStr Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?
title_full_unstemmed Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?
title_sort Nutrition and education in childhood: is it possible to show a causal relationship using cross-section data?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Rabassa, Mariano
author Rabassa, Mariano
author_facet Rabassa, Mariano
author_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Gasparini, Leonardo
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
JEL: I2
Economía
Nutrición
Educación
topic Ciencias Económicas
JEL: I2
Economía
Nutrición
Educación
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The fact that nutrition affects education outcomes is accepted by researchers and by policy makers. It is simple. Children cannot learn if they are hungry. The validity of the empirical approaches used to show a causal relationship from nutrition to education is an issue of debate. The presence of unobserved characteristics that influence both variables is the main concern of researchers. The goal of this paper is to study the possibility of overcoming these difficulties using the NHANES III (1988-1994), a cross-section data set with national representation in the US. A set of school outcomes and a dummy that accounts for the "food-insecurity" condition of each child's family are the central variables here. Based on a IVs procedure, it looks for variables that can be used as instruments for the "food-insecurity" condition. The preliminary results indicate that child's height and mother's body mass index are no good instruments to do so. Further research in needed to construct other variables that might turn to be good instruments for food-insecurity.
Magister en Economía
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
description The fact that nutrition affects education outcomes is accepted by researchers and by policy makers. It is simple. Children cannot learn if they are hungry. The validity of the empirical approaches used to show a causal relationship from nutrition to education is an issue of debate. The presence of unobserved characteristics that influence both variables is the main concern of researchers. The goal of this paper is to study the possibility of overcoming these difficulties using the NHANES III (1988-1994), a cross-section data set with national representation in the US. A set of school outcomes and a dummy that accounts for the "food-insecurity" condition of each child's family are the central variables here. Based on a IVs procedure, it looks for variables that can be used as instruments for the "food-insecurity" condition. The preliminary results indicate that child's height and mother's body mass index are no good instruments to do so. Further research in needed to construct other variables that might turn to be good instruments for food-insecurity.
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