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A preliminary estimate, and a request for better ones.
Summary
I believe the standard literature estimates for the number of DALYs attributable to a case of stunting are too low, largely because they don’t account for the long term effects. This means that childhood nutritional interventions that reduce the prevalence of stunting may be substantially more cost-effective than previously believed.
Epistemic status
Exploratory and back-o...
I haven't got an answer to the direct question but Prof. Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde does some really good work on the economic consequences of current demographic trends and sometimes addresses problems within published data, and reasons why there is divergence amongst datasets. Have a crawl through his X account: https://x.com/JesusFerna7026
As it relates to many developing countries, I think there's a general consensus that a lot of the data (economic, demographic etc.) is at least unreliable and in some cases, just made up.