Edlund, Lena; Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Almond, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had compromised a range of socioeconomic outcomes, including:...