Differences in Child Health Across Rural, Urban, and Slum Areas: Evidence From India
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Differences in Child Health Across Rural, Urban, and Slum Areas: Evidence From India.
The developing world is rapidly urbanizing, but an understanding of how child health differs across urban and rural areas is lacking. We examine the association between area of residence and child health in India, focusing on composition and selection effects. Simple height-for-age averages show that rural Indian children have the poorest health and urban children have the best, with slum child...
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عنوان ژورنال: Demography
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0070-3370,1533-7790
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-017-0634-7