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Understanding Childhood Malnutrition In Nepal: A Hierarchical Regression Approach, Timothy M. Smith
Understanding Childhood Malnutrition In Nepal: A Hierarchical Regression Approach, Timothy M. Smith
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This thesis investigates the determinants of childhood malnutrition in Nepal, with a particular emphasis on the importance of district characteristics relative to household and child characteristics. Using a new dataset constructed from child and household data from the 2006 and 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) and community characteristics aggregated from the 2004 and 2010 Nepal Living Standards Survey (NLSS), we estimate a variety of hierarchical regression models, which allow us to partition variance in height-for-age Z-scores between the levels of different hierarchical specifications, and then to partition that variance further, between group-level parameters.
Our findings suggest that the …