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Courant Research Centre, Goettingen, Germany
This study investigates the relationship between dietary diversity, a measure of diet quality, and health outcomes of young children. We examine this relationship not just at the mean, but also at different points of the conditional distributions of...
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ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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DS 439 (259)
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This study investigates the relationship between dietary diversity, a measure of diet quality, and health outcomes of young children. We examine this relationship not just at the mean, but also at different points of the conditional distributions of weight-for-age (WAZ) and height-for-age (HAZ) z-scores for children below six years of age, using quantile regression method. We construct five different dietary diversity measures using 14-day recall food consumption data collected in a primary survey conducted in in the rural-urban interface of Bangalore. Our results indicate no significant association between household dietary diversity and anthropometric outcomes of children below 6 years of age for any of the five measures.
