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United We Stand, Divided We Fall: Maternal Social Participation and Children's Nutritional Status in Peru

December, 2017
Marta Favara
  • Health & Nutrition
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In previous literature, social capital has been hypothesised as a substitute for other forms, such as physical and human capital. This working paper (published in 2012) contributes to this literature, studying the association between mothers' access to social capital via participation in community organisations and their children's nutritional status at 1 and 5 years. Using the Peruvian sample of the Young Lives project, this study suggests that, where human capital is scarce, social capital might have important implications for child development. Maternal social capital is positively associated with height at 1 year old for those children whose mothers have no formal education. No significant association is found at 5 years of age. 

In 2017, this research was published as a journal article at: Favara M. Maternal group participation and child nutritional status in Peru. Rev Dev Econ. 2017; 00: 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12363

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