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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability
Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023
effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our …
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Chinese aid and health at the country and local level
Cruzatti, John; Dreher, Axel; Matzat, Johannes - 2020
We investigate whether and to what extent Chinese development finance affects infant mortality, combining 92 demographic and health surveys (DHS) for a maximum of 53 countries and almost 55,000 sub-national locations over the 2002-2014 period. We address causality by instrumenting aid with a set...
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The lasting effects of maternal net nutrition during US economic development
Carson, Scott Alan - 2016
When traditional measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, stature and the body mass index (BMI) are now widely-accepted measures that reflect economic conditions. However, little work exists for late 19th and early 20th century women's BMIs in the US and how they varied with...
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Body mass, nutrition, and disease : current net nutrition during US economic development
Carson, Scott Alan - 2020
the physical environment. This study evaluates 19th century macro-level nutrition and diseases associated with US BMI … effect on net-nutrition than cholera. After controlling for nutrition and disease, black BMIs and weights were greater than …
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Local economic growth and infant mortality
Kammerlander, Andreas; Schulze, Günther G. - 2021
We show, for the first time, a causal effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother fixed effects we...
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The decline in the nutritional status of the U.S. antebellum population at the onset of modern economic growth
A'Hearn, Brian; Komlos, John - 2015
The decline in the physical stature of the American population for more than a generation beginning with the birth cohorts of the early 1830s was brought about by a diminution in nutritional intake in spite of robust growth in average incomes. This occurred at the onset of modern economic growth...
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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017
nutrition of their offspring. In this setting we demonstrate that relatively high metabolic costs of fertility, which may have …
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Nineteenth century black and mulatto physical activity, calories, and life expectancy
Carson, Scott Alan - 2014
rates and calories varied with economic development. During the 19th century, black physical activity and net nutrition … expectancy was not likely due to improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per … day than workers in other occupations. Black diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and rural blacks in the …
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Nineteenth century white physical activity and calories : socioeconomic status and diets
Carson, Scott Alan - 2014
expectancy increased at the same time that nutrition decreased, indicating that the most important source of increased life … expectancy was not improved nutrition. Physically active farmers had greater BMRs and received more calories per day than workers … in other occupations. White diets, nutrition, and calories varied by residence, and whites in the rural Deep South …
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Droughts and malnutrition in Africa
Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023
How costly are droughts to individuals' nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite …
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