Child Growth in the Time of Drought
利用津巴布韦农村家庭面板数据，发现12-24个月幼儿在干旱后身高增长损失1.5-2厘米，且追赶生长有限，造成永久性影响；而较大儿童未出现生长放缓，且损失在贫困家庭和户主女儿的后代中更严重。
This paper examines the impact of rainfall shocks on a measure of child health, growth in height, drawing on a unique household panel data set from rural Zimbabwe. We find that children aged 12 to 24 months lose 1.5‐2 cm of growth in the aftermath of a drought. Catch‐up growth in these children is limited so that this growth faltering has a permanent effect. By contrast, there is no evidence that older children experience a slowdown in growth. There is some evidence that the loss in growth is unequally distributed with children residing in poorer households and offspring of women who are daughters of the household head appearing to be especially vulnerable.