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Live aid revisited: long-term impacts of the 1984 Ethiopian famine on children
Dercon, Stefan; Porter, Catherine; Porter, Maria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it one of the worst in recent history.  The mortality impacts are clearly significant.  But what of the survivors?  This paper provides the first estimates the long-term impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004127
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Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from Malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters
Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Serneels, Pieter - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
approximately 10% over the weeks following the mobile clinic visit.  The study further investigates the effect of health information … by contrasting program effects by workers revealed health status.  For workers who test positive for malaria, the … those workers most likely to be surprised by the healthy diagnosis, the health information also leads to increased earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011158999
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Early Life Circumstance and Mental Health in Ghana
Fenske, James; Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
We study the origins of adult mental health using early life income fluctuations.  Combining a time series of real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159032
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Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health
Fenske, James; Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
We show that psychological well-being in adulthood varies substantially with circumstance in early life.  Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we find that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004309
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Oil and Ethnic Inequality in Nigeria
Fenske, James - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2015
individual's birth year predict positive relative outcomes, including reduced fertility, delayed marriage, higher probabilities … of working and having a skilled occupation, and greater schooling.  By contrast, health outcomes suffer, including …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011164427
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Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
Dercon, Stefan; Beegle, Kathleen - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
This paper uses a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and long-run consumption growth of surviving household members. Using unique data which tracks individuals from 1991 to 2004, we examine consumption growth, controlling for a set of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605012
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Women's Empowerment in Action: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial in Africa
Bandiera, Oriana; Burgess, Robin; Gulesci, Selim; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
Women in developing countries are disempowered relative to their contemporaries in developed countries.  High youth unemployment and early marriage and childbearing interact to limit human capital investment and enforce dependence on men.  In this paper we evaluate an attempt to jump-start...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011158997
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The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China
Knight, John; Shi, Li; Quheng, Deng - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Why is it that couples who have a son or whose last child is a son earn higher conditional income?  To solve this curious case we tell a detective story: evidence of a phenomenon to be explained, a parade of suspects, a process of elimination from the enquiry, and then the denouement.  Given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004464
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Smoking and Endogenous Mortality: Does Heterogeneity in Life Expectancy Explain Differences in Smoking Behavior?
Lechene, Valerie; Jéróme Adda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
This paper proposes a joint model of tobacco consumption and mortality over the life-cycle. The decision to smoke is a trade off between current utility derived from smoking and a mortality risk increasing with age. Individuals with a longer potential life expectancy have more incentive to cut...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152496
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The height production function from birth to maturity
Cao, Elisabetta De - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
Height is the result of a complex process of growth that begins at birth and reaches the end in early adulthood.  This paper studies the determinants of height from birth to maturity.  A height production function is specified whose structure allows height to be the result of the accumulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159025