Definitions of catch-up growth in anthropometric outcomes among young children vary across studies. This paper distinguishes between catch-up in the mean of a group toward that of a healthy reference population versus catch-up within the group, associated with a narrowing of the outcome distribution. In contrast to conventional empirical approaches based on dynamic panel models, the paper shows how catch-up can be tested via a latent growth framework...
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2018/2/22
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ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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WPS8353
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2018/2/22
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Identifying catch-up trajectories in child growth : new methods with evidence from young lives
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loss of degrees of freedom
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نسخة رسمية من الوثيقة (قد تضم توقيعات، الخ)
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