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Heat or Eat? Cold Weather Shocks and Nutrition in Poor American Families
Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we track calorie consumption, dietary quality, vitamin deficiencies, and …
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The Geography of Poverty and Nutrition : Food Deserts and Food Choices Across the United States
Allcott, Hunt - 2017
We study the causes of "nutritional inequality": why the wealthy tend to eat more healthfully than the poor in the U.S. Using event study designs exploiting supermarket entry and households' moves to healthier neighborhoods, we reject that neighborhood environments have meaningful effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453619
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Evolution of Risk Aversion over Five Years after a Major Natural Disaster
Ingwersen, Nicholas; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Thomas, Duncan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The impact of exposure to a major unanticipated natural disaster on the evolution of survivors' attitudes toward risk is examined, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in combination with rich population-representative longitudinal survey data...
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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late 2000s. We document an erosion of consumption insurance against both household-level idiosyncratic and village-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related...
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Reducing Bias Among Health Care Providers : Experimental Evidence From Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and Pakistan
Wagner, Zachary; Moucheraud, Corrina; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Bias among health care providers can lead to poor-quality care and poor health outcomes, and it can exacerbate disparities. We use a randomized controlled trial to evaluate an intervention to reduce family planning provider bias towards young women in 227 clinics in Tanzania, Burkina Faso, and...
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A Mother's Voice : Impacts of Spousal Communication Training on Child Health Investments
Björkman-Nyqvist, Martina; Jayachandran, Seema; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
family's health, nutrition, and finances. However, this does not increase overall adoption of health-promoting behaviors or …
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The Supplemental Poverty Measure : A New Method for Measuring Poverty
Fitzgerald, John; Moffitt, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on … the minimum bundle necessary to meet basic needs. Our measure differs from conventional income and consumption poverty in … both concept and measurement and it has advantages relative to both. Poverty rates using our basic measure are very close …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210084
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Depression and Loneliness Among the Elderly Poor
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther; Grela, Erin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
alone, we document that social isolation, poverty, and health challenges are three of the leading correlates of depression …
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Of Markets and Marriages : A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of U.S. Poverty
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to …
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The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households
Aggarwal, Shilpa; Aker, Jenny C.; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
While cash transfers will tautologically increase contemporaneous consumption, it is unclear whether these gains will persist, especially in rural agricultural settings with limited productive investment opportunities. Using bi-monthly survey data from recipients of a large, unconditional cash...
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