Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

Mass emigration was one key feature of the Great Irish Famine which distinguishes it from today’s famines. By bringing … famine victims to overseas food supplies, it undoubtedly saved many lives. Poverty traps prevented those most in need from … than in poorer counties. Another key feature of the Famine emigration was that it was irreversible. The Famine thus had a …

and away from exportable crops. The inherent conflicts and risks of providing insurance to poor, famine-prone countries …

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it … provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the famine twenty years later, on the height of young adults aged 19 …-22 years who experienced this severe shock as infants during the crisis. An innovative feature of the analysis is that famine …

In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars combined. Many more were … exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know almost nothing about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper … addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China's Great Famine on adult health and labor market …

found is unlikely to be mediated by the effect that undernutrition can have on academic performance. …

Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterized by emigration to … compare the wages of returned migrants with the wages of those who stayed in Ireland. In a recent paper, it has been argued … find support for this argument for men. On average, returning males earn 10 percent more than men who stayed in Ireland …