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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jul 12.
Published in final edited form as: Econ J (London). 2021 Apr 15;131(638):2478–2507. doi: 10.1093/ej/ueab028

Fig. 7. Across DHS Rounds, a Larger Negative Effect of Birth Order on NNM is Associated with a Steeper Negative Gradient between Age and Underweight among Adult Women.

Fig. 7.

Notes: The sample comprises DHS rounds used to construct the main DHS sample of births discussed in Section 2. In both panels, each point plots regression results from two separate regressions, each estimated for one DHS round at a time. The vertical axes plot the coefficient on birth order linearly predicting NNM, in a regression with mother fixed effects. The horizontal axis plots the coefficient on adult women’s age in years linearly predicting an indicator for being underweight. The results in panel (b) additionally control (by residualising the variables in the horizontal and vertical axes in two separate regressions) for a DHS-round-level mean of GDP per capita; for more detail, see Subsection 5.5.