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Book SynopsisThis book is a compendium of Alok Bhargava's most important contributions in longitudinal econometric methods and its application to problems of food, nutrition and health. It demonstrates the usefulness of rigorous econometric and statistical methods in addressing issues of under-nutrition and poor child health in developing countries, as well as obesity in developed countries.The close connection between the issues and themes analyzed in disciplines such as economics, nutrition, psychology, demography, epidemiology and public health, provides a sound basis for the formulation of public policies.
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Table of ContentsMethodological Contributions: Wald Tests and Systems of Stochastic Equations; Identification and Panel Data Models with Endogenous Regressors; Food Intakes, Health and Productivity in Developing Countries: Estimating Short and Long Run Income Elasticities of Foods and Nutrients for Rural South India; Nutritional Status and the Allocation of Time in Rwandese Households; Child Health and Cognitive Development in Developing Countries: Modeling the Health of Filipino Children; A Dynamic Model for the Cognitive Development of Kenyan Schoolchildren; AIDS Epidemic and the Psychological Well-Being and School Participation of Ethiopian Orphans; Population Health and Economic Growth: Stochastic Specification and the International GDP Series; Modeling the Effects of Health on Economic Growth; Economic Demography: A Longitudinal Analysis of Infant and Child Mortality Rates in Developing Countries; Family Planning, Gender Differences and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Uttar Pradesh, India; Behavior, Diet and Obesity in Developed Countries: Estimating the Variations and Autocorrelations in Dietary Intakes on Weekdays and Weekends; Socio-Economic and Behavioral Factors are Predictors of Food Use in the National Food Stamp Program Survey; and other papers.
