Relative deprivation and malnutrition in Ecuador
Larrea, Antonio (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Ramos, Xavier (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Fecha:	Bellaterra 2023
Descripción:	49 pag.
Resumen:	We hypothesize that relative deprivation has a deleterious effect on children'smalnutrition, one of the most prevalent health problems in the word, and that the main pathway of this relationship is the larger psychosocial stress of parents with higher relative deprivation. We model parental mental health as a function of own consumption and others' consumption levels by means of Fehr and Schmidt's (1999) utility function and assume a positive association between stress and malnutrition. Our findings for Ecuador suggest that relative deprivation leads to children's malnutrition. The effect is obtained after controlling for a rich set of individual and regional controls, which include, for the first time in a study of this sort, measures of parental height and weight. Heterogeneous effects indicate that breastfeeding can be very effective at compensating the deleterious effects of relative deprivation. After controlling for relative deprivation, inequality shows no effect on malnutrition.
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Lengua:	Anglès
Colección:	Working papers GEAR ; 2023-05
Documento:	Working paper
Materia:	Relative deprivation ; Malnutrition ; Ecuador

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