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Late 19th and early 20th century urban net nutrition by gender and race

Carson, Scott Alan - 2023

Individuals urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural living conditions. Body mass, height, and weight are welfare measures that reflect the net difference between calories consumed and calories required for work and to withstand the physical environment. Nineteenth and early...

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Changing current net nutrition with weight as a measure of net nutritional change with the transition from bound to free labor : a difference-in-decompositions approach

Carson, Scott Alan - 2019

A population's weight conditioned on height reflects its current net nutrition and demonstrates health variation during economic development. This study builds on the use of weight as a measure for current net nutrition and uses a difference-in-decompositions technique to illustrate how black...

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The causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961 : country-level evidence

Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Li, Bingjing - 2017 - First Draft: February 15, 2017, this version: November 23, 2017

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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Assessing cumulative net nutrition and the transition from 19th century bound to free-labor by ethnic status

Carson, Scott Alan - 2017

Average stature reflects cumulative net nutrition and health during economic development. This study introduces a difference-in-decompositions approach to show that although 19th century African-American cumulative net nutrition was comparable to working class whites, it was made worse-off with...

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Body mass, nutrition, and disease : current net nutrition during US economic development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2020

When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...

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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-based vegetation index observed bi-monthly for 0.08° grids between 1982 and 2015. Across 32 African countries, conditional on individual characteristics, timing relative to growing...

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Fighting lone mothers' poverty through in-work benefits : methodological issues and policy suggestions

Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013

(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers ́labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …

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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …

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Mission drift in microcredit and microfinance institution incentives

Biancini, Sara; Ettinger, David; Venet, Baptiste - 2017 - This version: January 2017

We analyze the relationship between Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) and external donors, with the aim of contributing to the debate on "mission drift" in microfinance. We assume that both the donor and the MFI are pro-poor, possibly at different extents. Borrowers can be (very) poor or...

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Cash transfer programs and household labor supply

Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of …

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