This study targets the empirical space between cross-country analyses exploring links between income and nutrition without
insights on micro-level determinants, and relevant microeconomic studies hindered by small sample size and/or incomplete data. We
use the rural samples of the three waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey, and estimate panel regressions of child height-for-age zscores
(HAZ) controlling for time-invariant child-level heterogeneity. On the whole, we find no impact of short-term changes in total
gross income on HAZ but document small positive correlations for younger children. Sector-differentiated analyses indicate that compared
to wage earnings, only share of income from non-farm self-employment correlates positively with HAZ. Within agriculture, shares
of income from consumption of own crop production and from low-protein crop production underlie the negative effect of share of income
from crop production. While we cannot claim causal relationships, our findings suggest the possibility of ‘‘stickiness” of crop production
to own consumption