Abstract
Intergenerational Effects of Stunting on Human Capital: Where Does the Compass Point?
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IntroductionArticle Available online http://www.ijmedph.org/v9/i4Human capital theory argues that money spent on education and training causes economic growth, reduces poverty and increases personal incomes as this enhances the quality of a human by making him more knowledgeable and skilled and worthier and more valuable for an employer in the labour market.[1]
Since human capital formation starts from the early stage of childhood, children born to healthy parents are more likely to be healthy themselves and grow up to gain more years of schooling, develop better skills and become more employable
Further evidence was incorporated from independent reports of the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN), World Bank, Global Nutrition Report (2015, 2016) and National Family Health Survey – 4 (NFHS 2015-16)
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Article Available online http://www.ijmedph.org/v9/i4Human capital theory argues that money spent on education and training causes economic growth, reduces poverty and increases personal incomes as this enhances the quality of a human by making him more knowledgeable and skilled and worthier and more valuable for an employer in the labour market.[1]. Though parents influence the knowledge, skills, values and habits of their children, there isn’t a strong positive relation between the earnings of the parents and their children. This is attributed to the opportunities provided by public support to education, which helps the people from lower economic backgrounds (whose parents are not well educated) to do well in the labour market. Since human capital formation starts from the early stage of childhood, children born to healthy parents are more likely to be healthy themselves and grow up to gain more years of schooling, develop better skills and become more employable
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