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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 … indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life …

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The spread of anti-trafficking policies : evidence from a new index

Cho, Seo-young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Democratization and civil liberties : the role of violence during the transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...

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The role of constitutions on poverty : a cross-national investigation

Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - 2015

In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...

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Do Walmart supercenters improve food security?

Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; … - 2018

This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...

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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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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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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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Swallow this : childhood and adolescent exposure to fast food restaurants, BMI, and cognitive ability

Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2023

Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young adult males. Our results indicate that exposure to these establishments...

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The dynamics of food deprivation and overall health : evidence from the Canadian national population health survey

McLeod, Logan; Veall, Michael R. - 2002

The paper explores whether the responses to food deprivation questions on the longitudinal Canadian National Population Health Survey help explain the links between socio-economic status and health. Transitions in food deprivation status are correlated with changes in health status. While health...

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