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The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...
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stature and final educational attainment, later ages at marriage and lower fertility than do those in the neighbouring border …
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during the famine. Finally, controlling for pre-famine fertility, we find that women who were pregnant during the Famine …
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, especially in LMIC contexts. We use unique data collected in Ethiopia and Peru as part of the Young Lives to investigate the … relationship between early undernutrition and four foundational cognitive skills, the first two of which measure executive …
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Marriages between blood relatives - also known as consanguineous unions - are widespread in North Africa, Central and West Asia and most parts of South Asia. Researchers have suggested that consanguinity has adverse effects on child development, but assessing its impact is not straightforward as...
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This paper investigates the causal relationship between women's education and fertility by exploiting variation … generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by this reform is identified using both … reform. The model finds that the removal of school fees in Ethiopia led to an increase of over 1.5 years of schooling for …
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We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. For identification, we exploit regional and time variation in the crisis, focusing on women who...
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We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research … addressing the endogeneity of fertility. Using data from the Demographic Health Survey (DHS) of Ethiopia, we use the husband … fertility and labor supply in Ethiopia, perhaps because the persistence of traditional family structures in the face of rising …
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is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom … completed fertility of all cohorts involved. …
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