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Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822690
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A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747354
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Can Economic Crises Be Good for Your Diet?
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
With fortuitously timed data – collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria – we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …
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The Impact on Nutrition of the Intrahousehold Distribution of Power
Djebbari, Habiba - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The distribution of income within the household is found to matter for the allocation of resources towards nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761995
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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...
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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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Seasonal Credit Constraints and Agricultural Labor Supply: Evidence from Zambia
Fink, Günther; Jack, Kelsey; Masiye, Felix - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries. While most farmers primarily work on their own fields, off-farm labor is common among small-scale farmers. A growing literature suggests that off-farm labor is not the result of...
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