Nancy Luke
Hongwei Xu

http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol24/15/

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.15

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Abstract

Much research attention has been devoted to community context and health. Communities are often defined as residential spaces, such as neighborhoods, or as social groupings, such as caste in India. Using data from a group of tea estates in South India, we attempt to address important methodological challenges in the identification of neighborhood effects on child health. We find significant neighborhood effects for weight for age at age one, including a protective role for community-level women’s education, but none for birth weight. In contrast to the usual pattern in rural India, caste disparities in child health are also eliminated in this setting.

Author's affiliation
Nancy Luke
Brown University, United States of America
Hongwei Xu
Brown University, United States of America

Keywords
caste, child health, child nutrition, India, low birthweight, neighborhood effects

Word count (Main text)
7515

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