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| Shrestha, Sundar S.; Findeis, Jill L.. |
| Childhood stunting among preschool-age children stands as a serious public health problem to be addressed in Nepal. Applying the multi-level modeling approach to nationally representative data, in the overall, we provide evidence that the negative influence of maternal own education to childhood stunting occurs especially for mother's higher level of education, but there exists substantial residential variations. Most interestingly, we provide new evidence of a strong negative community externality of maternal education on childhood stunting, even if mothers of children are uneducated. We also find mother's height is negatively related to childhood stunting, regardless of mother's educational attainment and place of residence, providing evidence of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Health Economics and Policy; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9723 |
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| Shrestha, Sundar S.; Frechette, Darren L.. |
| Many studies have addressed the issues of the price relationships between spatially separated commodity markets. Such studies, which have policy relevance, provide information on the structure and the performance of the markets. Most of these studies, however, have been criticized for not considering the transfer costs and the seasonality in their analyses. In this study, taking two spatially separated markets in Nepal, we estimate and test for the spatial pricing efficiency in tomato markets. Specifically, we estimate the speed of price adjustment in the local market in response to the price shocks in the central market, and examine the efficiency of spatial arbitrage between these two markets. The data we use is unique in that the data was collected from... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22076 |
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