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Health and Civil War in Rural Burundi
verwimp, philip; Bundervoet, Tom; Akresh, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi’s civil war on children’s health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war’s timing across provinces and the exposure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762148
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542045
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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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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...
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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...
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Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? Evidence from England
Currie, Alison; Shields, Michael A.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761681
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371912
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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. We use the interaction terms between wage growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701331