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Civil war, famine and the persistence of human capital: evidence from Tajikistan

Grogan, Louise Anne - 2021

The dissolution of the Soviet Union and 1992-96 Tajik civil war resulted in huge human and economic losses. Nevertheless, contemporary data suggest the persistence of investments in human capital in the region most affected by famine and least favoured since the cessation of hostilities,...

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Food insecurity and insufficiency at low levels of food expenditures

Gundersen, Craig (contributor); Ribar, David C. (contributor) - 2005

This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study examines the general relationships between these...

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Early-life famine exposure, hunger recall and later-life health

Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021

We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a...

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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century

Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...

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Impact of caregiver incentives on child health : evidence from an experiment with Anganwadi workers in Indi

Prakarsh Singh; Masters, William Alan - 2016

This paper provides evidence of effectiveness for performance pay among government caregivers to improve child health in India. In a controlled study of 160 daycare centers serving over 4,000 children, we randomly assign individual workers to receive either fixed bonuses or incentive payments...

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Stunting and selection effects of famine : a case study of the great Chinese famine

Gørgens, Tue (contributor); Meng, Xin (contributor); … - 2007

"The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...

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Long-run longevity effects of a nutritional shock early in life : the Dutch potato famine of 1846 - 1847

Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor); … - 2007

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few studies have demonstrated long-run effects on survival of early life nutrition, mainly because of data limitations and confounding issues. Methods: This paper investigates whether...

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The long run health and economic consequences of famine on survivors : evidence from China's Great Famine

Meng, Xin (contributor); Qian, Nancy (contributor) - 2006

In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars combined. Many more were exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know almost nothing about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper addresses this question by estimating the effect of...

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Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality : some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy

Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … inter-regional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests …

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Large demographic shocks and small changes in the marriage market

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Vogel, Carl - 2009

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine affected cohorts in rural areas of Sichuan and Anhui. The reduced form estimates incorporate general equilibrium and heterogeneous treatment effects, two important components of...

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