Tan, Chih Ming; Tan, Zhibo; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
The intergenerational effect of fetal exposure to malnutrition on cognitive ability has rarely been studied for human beings in large part due to lack of data. In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment, the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–1961, and employ a novel dataset, the China...