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A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
and wealth. We propose a revealed preference approach to measuring hunger and undernutrition that overcomes these …Caloric intake and minimum calorie thresholds are widely used in developing countries to assess hunger and nutrition …
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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 Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
Deaton, Angus - 2005
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with …
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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy
Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002
related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both …
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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
The six principal findings of this paper are as follows: (1) crisis mortality accounted for less than 5 percent of total mortality in England prior to 1800 and the elimination of crisis mortality accounted for just 15 percent of the decline in total mortality between the eighteenth and...
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How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2013
We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption patterns in favor of the subsidized grains and...
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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
significantly reduced the proportion of children stunted, while cash alone had no impact on stunting. SBCC appears to have worked in … conjunction with cash to reduce stunting by encouraging mothers to increase children's total calories and protein consumed. The …
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Expanding Governance as Development : Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines
Berman, Eli - 2016
Worldwide, extreme poverty is often concentrated in spaces where people and property are not safe enough to sustain effective markets, and where development assistance is dangerous - and might even induce violence. Expanding governance by coercively taking control of territory may enable markets...
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The Child and Adult Care Food Program : Who is Served and What are Their Nutritional Outcomes?
Gordon, Rachel A. - 2010
Program (CACFP): (1) Does CACFP reach targeted low-income children? (2) How do eligible families and child care providers who … and children's food intake, weight, and food security? We use the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to … examine these questions for a representative sample of young children and their providers. We find that program eligibility …
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