FOOD SECURITY AND HEALTH SECURITY - EXPLAINING THE LEVELS OF NUTRITIONAL-STATUS IN PAKISTAN

In this study we use a production function approach to ask whether the nutritional status of children in rural communities in Pakistan is responsive to changes in household food availability at the margin. Similarly, it evaluates the role of morbidity in explaining children's weights and heights. In doing so, it also evaluates the degree to which household income accounts for differences in observed nutritional status and the degree to which other factors such as education and public health contribute to the nutritional outcome. -from Authors