The DHS Program

Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Pande
THE NEW YORK TIMES (New York, USA)

"...Last year, we conducted a study that used demographic and health surveys for India and 25 sub-Saharan African countries to compare heights by age in a sample of more than 174,000 children under 5. Like other researchers, we found an India-Africa height gap. Unlike other researchers, we examined how this varied by birth order within the family..."

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Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Pande
THE NEW YORK TIMES (New York, USA)

"...Last year, we conducted a study that used demographic and health surveys for India and 25 sub-Saharan African countries to compare heights by age in a sample of more than 174,000 children under 5. Like other researchers, we found an India-Africa height gap. Unlike other researchers, we examined how this varied by birth order within the family..."