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The long-term health effects of fetal malnutrition : evidence from the 1959 - 1961 China great leap forward famine

Kim, Seonghoon; Fleisher, Belton M.; Sun, Jessica Ya - 2015

We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … Origin Hypothesis. We find that fetal exposure to malnutrition has large and long-lasting impacts on both physical health and … measures of mental acuity. Our findings on the health impacts of fetal malnutrition on middle-age survivors suggest that it …

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Fetal malnutrition and academic success : evidence from Muslim immigrants in Denmark

Greve, Jane; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal - 2015

This paper examines the impact of potential fetal malnutrition on the academic proficiency of Muslim students in … Denmark. We account for the endogeneity of fetal malnutrition by using the exposure to the month of Ramadan during time in … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …

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The effects of intrauterine malnutrition on birth and fertility outcomes : evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh famine

Hernández-Julián, Rey; Mansour, Hani; Peters, Christina - 2013

malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy …

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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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Learning and behavioral spillovers of nutritional information

Prakarsh Singh - 2016

-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are given recipe books in the treatment group to reduce malnutrition in their …

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Echo effects of early-life health shocks : the intergenerational consequences of prenatal malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward famine in China

Li, Jinhu; Menon, Nidhiya - 2020

Few studies have examined the "echo effect" of early-life shocks related to prenatal malnutrition, that is, whether the … legacy of such shocks is transmitted to the next generation. This study addresses this gap by leveraging extreme malnutrition … positive selection of sons born to mothers exposed to prenatal malnutrition during the famine and cultural aspects such as son …

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Is consanguinity an impediment to child development outcomes?

Mete, Cem; Bossavie, Laurent; Giles, John; Alderman, Harold - 2019

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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Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data

Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017

South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the period during which progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been monitored. One explanation for this reversal is that Big Food retail chains have been...

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Costly posturing : ceremonies and early child development in China

Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2017

Participating in and presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by friends and neighbors have been regarded as social norms in many parts of the world for thousands of years. However, due to the reciprocal nature of gift giving, it is more burdensome for the poor to take...

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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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