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The Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961 : County-Level Evidence

Kasahara, Hiroyuki - 2018

This study provides evidence that the over-export of grains aggravated the severity of China's Great Famine. We collect county-level data for the 1953-1965 period on death rates, birth rates, amounts of grain procured, output of different types of grain, crop productivity, weather conditions,...

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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition : Evidence from the Greek Famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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Explaining the Body Mass Index Gaps between Turkish Immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012 : A Decomposition Analysis of Socio-Economic Causes

Dang, Rui - 2021

In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany for women and men. We focus on isolating the part of BMI differences that can be explained by differences in observed socioeconomic status from the part attributable to...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment -- Evidence for German Sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2021

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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Food for Fuel : The Effect of U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2021

RFS on world food prices and their impact on household level consumption and wage incomes in India. We first develop a … losses are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

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Globalization, Gender and Development : The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling

Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2011

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro …-level data from India, we find that an increase in female labor supply due to the tariff reductions was associated with a 7 … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 …

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Can Peers Improve Agricultural Productivity?

Songsermsawas, Tisorn; Baylis, Kathy; Chhatre, Ashwini; … - CESifo - 2014

Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique Indian household survey, we estimate peer effects on agricultural revenue. Results show that 60% of farmers' revenue is explained by peers. Input expenditures and land allocation to...

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Early-Life Circumstances Predict Measures of Trust Among Adults : Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany

Hörl, Maximiliane - 2016

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure...

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Decomposition of Demographic Effects on the German Pension System

Fenge, Robert - 2018

The paper analyses the impact of demographic developments on the German pension system until the year 2060. The projections are simulated for a range of assumptions on the latest demographic trends and on the labour market and comprise the latest pension legislation. As a central innovation we...

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Inference in Structural Vector Autoregressions When the Identifying Assumptions are Not Fully Believed : Re-Evaluating the Role of Monetary Policy in Economic Fluctuations

Baumeister, Christiane - 2018

Reporting point estimates and error bands for structural vector autoregressions that are only set identified is a very common practice. However, unless the researcher is persuaded on the basis of prior information that some parameter values are more plausible than others, this common practice...

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