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. 2020 Feb 7;39:1. doi: 10.1186/s41043-020-0209-x

Table 3.

Parameters to estimate the production losses (economic burden) linked with IDA

Parameter Value Source
Life expectancy 58 years World Factbook [46]
Age to begin working life 15 years World Bank [47]
Age of ending working life 64 years World Bank [47]
Mean monthly wage 65,575 XOF National Statistics Cote D’Ivoire [48]
Monetary discount rate 3% Smith [49]
Expected income growth 3.5% World Bank [47]
Work force participation (net) 63% World Bank [47]
Income distribution SES 1: 1.9% to SES 10: 34.8% UNU-WIDER [50]
Unadjusted intergeneration income correlation 0.55 Black, Solon [51, 52]
Education adjusted intergeneration income correlation 0.35 Black [51]
Returns on education 10.9% Psacharopoulos [32]
Impact of anemia on school performance − 10% Hutchinson et al., Soemantri et al., [29, 30]
Impact of anemia on school attendance − 5.3% Bobonis et al., Hutchinson et al., Bobonis et al., Walker et al. [27, 2931]
Relative risk of school absenteeism on school drop-outs 1.8 Walker et al. [31]
Impact of 1 standard deviation reduction in cognitive score on future wages − 8% Psacharopoulos [53]
Impact of IDA on productivity of moderate manual labor − 5% Basta [51]
Impact of IDA on productivity of intense manual labor − 17% Basta [54]

IDA iron deficiency anemia, SES socioeconomic strata, XOF West African CFA Franc (CFA stands for Communauté Financière Africaine); Work force participation (net): excludes those unemployed