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Relationship between hemoglobin and cognition among

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Sean Sylvia, 2015, "Relationship between hemoglobin and cognition among children in rural China",
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• We estimate multivariate cubic spline functions of the haemoglobin-cognitive and haemoglobin-non
cognitive relationship for different sub-populations and age groups of Chinese children. In all cubic
spline estimations we control standard for gender, age, household wealth and parental education. • We
pool the baseline survey data from 8 randomized control trials conducted by REAP. This results in an
extra-ordinary large sample consisting of 4,000 infants between 6 months and 5 years, 23,000 children
between age 5 and 11 and 22,000 children between age 12 and 14 years old. Data has been collected
across several Chinese provinces: Shaanxi, Ningxia, Qinghai, Gansu, Hebei, and Guizhou • Overall
we find the relationship between haemoglobin concentation and measures of human capital to be
concave. • For mathematics we find that moving from a concentration of 110 to 130 Hb g/dL is, on
average and controlling for socio-economic factors, associated with 0.2 of a standard deviation
improvement in test scores. • Using the Bayley Scales to estimate adjusted cubic splines for infants
from 6 to 30 months we find considerable slope differences between the two sub-scales of the Bayley
test. The association between Hb concentration and the Psychomotor Development Index (PDI) is
stronger than the association of Hb concentration and the Mental Developmental Index (MDI). This
should not be surprising given that the psychomotor scores are found to be better predictors of later
cognitive performance (Pollitt and Gorman, 1990).

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