Height and Health

What is it about?

As height is determined in part by early childhood nutrition, it contains some information about the receipt of health resources/inputs during childhood. This publication considers if there is discrimination in the provision of health resources by considering variation in height by ethnicity in Tanzania.

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Why is it important?

While there is a wide variety of evidence that ethnicity undermines growth/development in Sub-Saharan Africa, this paper provides some evidence on the ethnicity-discrimination nexus in the provisioning of health inputs that could matter for labor market productivity.