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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774911
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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition : evidence from the Greek famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003949069
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Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 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 with measures of trust using data from a nationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540782
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Can digital aid deliver during humanitarian crises?
Callen, Michael; Fajardo-Steinhäuser, Miguel; Findley, … - 2024
Can digital payments systems help reduce extreme hunger? Humanitarian needs are at their highest since 1945, aid … budgets are falling behind, and hunger is concentrating in fragile states where repression and aid diversion present major … World Food Programme's global figure for cash-based transfers. These savings can help reduce hunger without additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583810
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014252292
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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?
Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019
We study the capacity to meet food demand under conditions of climate change, economic and population growth. We take a novel approach to quantifying climate impacts, based on a model of the global economy structurally estimated on the period 1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138747
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Vertical transmission of overweight : evidence from English adoptees
Costa-Font, Joan; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Le Grand, Julian - 2015
We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010518791
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The effect of language on economic behavior : experimental evidence from children's intertemporal choices
Sutter, Matthias; Angerer, Silvia; Glätzle-Rützler, … - 2015 - Date: 25 September 2015
from a bilingual city in Northern Italy. We find that German-speaking primary school children are about 46% more likely … than Italian-speaking children to delay gratification in an intertemporal choice experiment. This result is robust when …
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(Why) do self-employed parents have more children?
Broussard, Nzinga; Chami, Ralph; Hess, Gregory - 2003
respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404319
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Children do not behave like adults : gender gaps in performance and risk taking within a random social context in the high-stakes game shows Jeopardy and Junior Jeopardy
Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Sjögren Lindquist, Gabriella - 2014
Using unique panel data, we compare cognitive performance and wagering behavior of children (10-11 years) with adults …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234522