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Behrman (1982) find that child health and nutrition are positively associated with schooling, except in low-income rural areas. These references suggest the existence of bottlenecks that need to be addressed: low education does not allow other interventions to improve health care (as in Jalan and Ravallion, 2003) or poverty does not allow education to improve child health (as in Wolfe and Behrman, 1982). The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 outlines the basic methodology followed in the paper, Section 3 describe the sampling scheme while Section 4 describes the data and comments on the main variables of the analysis | Chil The Commonwealth Fund One East 75th Street New York NY 10021-2692 Telephone Facsimile Email Web cmwf@ THE COMMONWEALTH FUND Center For CHILD HEALTH L RESEARCH 1 Pub . 778 Early Child Development in Social Context A Chartbook CHILD TRENDS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE AAP CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH RESEARCH SEPTEMBER 2004 Early Child Development in Social Context Child Trends and Center for Child Health Research 2004 Early Child Development in Social Context A Chartbook r Center For CHILD HEALTH L RESEARCH Child Trends is a nonprofit nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions programs and policies that affect children. In advancing this mission Child Trends collects and analyzes data conducts synthesizes and disseminates research designs and evaluates programs and develops and tests promising approaches to research in the field. The Center for Child Health Research is an independent operating branch of the American Academy of Pediatrics AAP with its own Board of distinguished child health researchers which reports to the Board of the AAP Its mission is to improve the health and functioning of the nation s children by catalyzing conducting and utilizing research that deals with the social determinants and consequences of children s health and disease and health promotion and disease prevention. Created in 1999 it is envisioned as a virtual center with investigators from multiple disciplines and communities working together on themes of great public health importance. The administrative core of the Center for Child Health Research is housed at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent research on health and social issues and makes grants to improve health care practice and policy. The Fund s two national program .