Maternal Undernutrition in Adolescence and Child Human Capital Formation over the Life-Course: Evidence from an International Cohort Study

Adolescence has been highlighted as a period when environments are critical for the human capital development of women, and thus their children, but evidence on this from low- middle-income countries is scarce. We estimate effect mother adolescent undernutrition offspring growth infancy through adolescence using data Ethiopia, India, Peru, Vietnam Instrumental Variables (IV) estimation that employs rainfall shocks during mother’s instruments nutritional status. find positive significant status child height-for-age in persists to may manifest mainly biological channel. Our results also support impact early adult height adolescence. no achievement tests scores, however.