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The Conquest of High Mortality and Hunger in Europe and America : Timing and Mechanisms

Fogel, Robert William - 1990

wave of the decline and virtually none thereafter. Reductions in chronic malnutrition Were much more important and may have … accounted for most of the improvement in life expectation before 1875. Chronic malnutrition were much more important and may … have accounted for most of the improvement in life expectation before 1875. Chronic malnutrition could not have been …

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Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger : Famines, Price Elasticities, Entitlements, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates

Fogel, Robert W. - 1989

government policy could not have eliminated chronic malnutrition. Elimination of chronic malnutrition required technological …

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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States

Collins, William J. - 2018

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the US. We build a dataset of Irish immigrants and their sons by linking males from 1850 to 1880 US census records. For comparison, we also link German and British immigrants, their...

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Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? : Experimental Evidence from Myanmar

Field, Erica Marie; Maffioli, Elisa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We experimentally evaluate the impact on child malnutrition of a maternal cash transfer program in Myanmar that was …

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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence using Nutrition Data for Africa

Brown, Caitlin S. - 2017

Antipoverty policies assume that targeting poor households suffices in reaching poor individuals. We question this assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely across the household wealth and consumption...

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The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South

Clay, Karen - 2017

We explore the rise and fall of pellagra, a disease caused by inadequate niacin consumption, in the American South, focusing on the first half of the twentieth century. We first consider the hypothesis that the South's monoculture in cotton undermined nutrition by displacing local food...

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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61

Meng, Xin - 2010

This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered...

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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?

Jensen, Robert T. - 2010

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consumers may then substitute towards foods with higher...

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The Long Term Consequences of Famine on Survivors : Evidence from a Unique Natural Experiment using China's Great Famine

Meng, Xin - 2009

This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and potential endogeneity of famine intensity, we exploit a novel source of variation in regional intensity of famine derived from...

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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine : Mainland China and Hong Kong

Almond, Douglas - 2007

This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural … experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had …. Women married spouses with less education and later, as did men, if at all. In addition, maternal malnutrition reduced the …

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