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Youths at Nutritional Risk : Malnourished or Misnourished?
Bhattacharya, Jay - 2000
We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … capital production function that summarizes available nutrition information. We find that although many youths suffer from …
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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change
Philipson, Tomas J. - 1999
This paper analyzes the factors contributing to the worldwide long-run rise in obesity and the effects of public interventions on its continued growth. The growth of obesity in a population results from an increase in calorie consumption relative to physical activity. Yet in developed countries,...
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Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan; Oommen, Anu; Singh, Swapnil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
nutrition trap (but are not necessarily overweight) are at increased risk of metabolic disease. The model and the underlying …
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Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700 : Some Additional Preliminary Findings
Fogel, Robert W. - 1986
This paper is an extensive revision and expansion of Working Paper No.1402. It centers on a new time series of life expectations in the U.S. since 1720, which has been constructed from the NBER/CPE pilot sample of genealogies. Native-born Americans achieved remarkably long life expectations...
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Nutrition and the Decline in Mortality Since 1700 : Some Preliminary Findings
Fogel, Robert W. - 1984
This paper uses the data in the NBER/CPE pilot sample of genealogies to create a new time series on life expectation in the U.S. since 1720. After attaining remarkably high levels toward the end of the eighteenth century, life expectation as measured by e0(10) began a decline that lasted about...
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An Economic Analysis of the Diet, Growth, and Health of Young Children in the United States
Chernichovsky, Dov - 1979
provision of adequate diets for young children in the United States. An examination of the Health and Nutrition Examination …
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Colonial and Revolutionary Muster Rolls : Some New Evidence on Nutrition and Migration in Early America
Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 1979
on education, many scholars have also directed attention to the significance of improvements in nutrition. Until recently … nutrition from height-by-age data. This paper employs a relatively underutilized type of historical document to investigate the … level of nutrition in early America. The same material also provides a rich source of information about patterns of …
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The Income Elasticity for Nutrition : Evidence from Unconditional Cash Transfers in Kenya
Almås, Ingvild - 2019
We use a randomized controlled trial to study the effect of large income changes, through unconditional cash transfers, on the food share of expenditures and consumption of calories among poor households in rural Kenya. Our preferred estimate of the food elasticity following USD 709 transfers is...
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Is Fish Brain Food or Brain Poison? Sea Surface Temperature, Methyl-mercury and Child Cognitive Development
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2020
We exploit variation in the composition of local fish catches around the time of birth using administrative and census data on adult cognitive test scores, schooling attainment, and occupation among coastal populations in Colombia to estimate the causal effects of early-life consumption of...
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The Benefits of Breastfeeding Across the Early Years of Childhood
Belfield, Clive R. - 2010
The choice to breastfeed rather than formula-feed an infant as well as the duration of doing so has been scrutinized in more recent times. Yet, key identification issues remain to be resolved, including the array of possible child development benefits, the optimal intensity of breastfeeding...
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