Eric Schneider @ericbschneider.com · Oct 19 Child stunting has been declining since 1980, but earlier trends were unknown. With many co-authors, I reconstructed historical trends for 123 countries. Child stunting was a common experience for past populations with some countries like Japan having very high stunting rates.
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There are many causes of child stunting which make explaining historical trends very difficult. The rest of this thread lists some of the causes and evaluates whether they mattered for stunting decline.