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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 … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822811
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542045
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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552949
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646289
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The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693840
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008922962
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095510