Early nutrition and cognitive achievement in pre-school children in Peru

Working paper

The aim of this paper is to examine the link between early stunting and later cognitive achievement. It differs from nutrition–learning studies in other developing countries in that it focuses on pre-school children, and therefore time spent in school plays no role. Data comes from a cohort of children in Peru (Young Lives survey), for which information is available from two points of time: 2002, when they were six to 20 months old; and 2006-7, when they were 4 to 6 years old. For the empiric...

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Authors: Sanchez, A

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Young Lives Publisher's website
• Series: Young Lives Working Paper
• Place of publication: http://www.younglives.org.uk/publications/working-papers
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• Paper number: 57
• ISBN: 9781904427636
• Language: English
• Keywords: education; cognitive achievement; Peru; pre-school learning; children
• Subjects: Children and youth; Early and Child learning; Poverty; Health and health policy