Urban land rights and child nutritional status in Peru, 2004.
Advocates of land-titling programs in developing countries posit that these programs lead to a multitude of benefits, including health improvements. This paper presents the results of a child health survey of several Lima communities after various time exposures to Peru's urban land-titling program. The results provide suggestive evidence that improved property rights increase children's weight but not their height, which is consistent with previous work on the topic. However, titles also appear to raise children's risk of being overweight or obese, implying that the observed weight gain is not necessarily an improvement in nutritional status.
Vogl
Tom S
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Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States. tvogl@fas.harvard.edu
D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D001827:Body Height / Q000502:physiology*; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002961:Civil Rights; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D009035:Mothers; D009752:Nutritional Status / Q000502:physiology*; D010067:Ownership / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends; D010568:Peru; D011640:Public Policy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014504:Urban Health; D014506:Urban Renewal / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods