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Long-term effects of childhood malnutrition on education and health: evidence from Indonesia

Crawford School of Public Policy | Arndt-Corden Department of Economics

Event details

PhD Seminar (Econ)

Date & time

Friday 18 November 2016
9.30am–11.00am

Venue

Seminar Room 3, Level 1, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU

Speaker

Moh Agung Widodo, PhD scholar, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School, ANU.

Child malnutrition is a serious problem in many developing countries. Using Indonesia’s 1960s hunger episode as a source of exogenous variation, I find that children who were born in affected regions went on to complete fewer years of schooling. They also tend to have lower cognitive ability when they are adults. There is, however, no strong direct evidence of long-term effects of childhood malnutrition on chronic diseases. Only after comparing the offspring of malnutrition survivors with that of the control group, the symptoms of stunting can be identified.

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