Calorie deprivation and poverty nutrition trap in rural India
Jha, Raghbendra; Gaiha, Raghav; Sharma, Anurag
Description
This paper tests for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of the nutrient most likely to have productivity impacts, i.e., calories, for three categories of wages – sowing, harvesting, and other – and for male and female workers separately. We use household level national data for rural India for the period January to June 1994. We use robust sample selection procedures due to Tobit methods and due to Heckman to arrive at consistent estimates. It is discovered that the PNT...[Show more]
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Date published: | 2006 |
Type: | Working/Technical Paper |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/43256 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/43256 |
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