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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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Migration and Young Child Nutrition: Evidence from Rural China
Mu, Ren; de Brauw, Alan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their … parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas … the height of children, but it improves their weight. We provide suggestive evidence that the improvement in weight may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701331
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Resilience to Economic Shocks and the Long Reach of Childhood Bullying
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
,000 children into adulthood, we show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental health and life satisfaction is almost four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010585695
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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards. The objective of this article is threefold. First, we explain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684801
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … interregional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822811
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The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine
Hernández-Julián, Rey; Mansour, Hani; Peters, Christina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy … were less likely to have male children. Moreover, children who were in utero during the most severe period of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960110
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Kim, Seonghoon; Deng, Quheng; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680892
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Is Leaving Home a Hardship?
Ribar, David C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Nest-leaving – the transition of young adults from their parents' homes to other living arrangements – is a major life-course milestone. Although the causes of nest-leaving have been extensively researched, only a few studies have examined the changes in young adults' own assessments of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889994
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Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
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