On the determinants of nutrition in Mozambique: The importance of age-specific effects
利用莫桑比克马普托的数据，发现家庭收入和母亲教育对不同年龄段儿童营养状况的影响不同：收入只影响两岁及以上儿童，而母亲教育只影响更年幼儿童。
The literature indicates mixed results regarding the impact of income and other variables on the age and gender standardized height-for-age of children. This paper uses data from Maputo, Mozambique to show that the impact of household resources or health inputs may be masked if diverse age groups are aggregated. For example, increases in household incomes affect only the nutritional status of children two years of age and older. Conversely, for younger children, but not the older ones, mother's education is a significant determinant of anthropometric measures of nutritional status. This implies that education and efforts to improve childcare practices can be targeted to mothers of younger children, but that these children will not achieve improved linear growth from income-support programs, unlike older children.