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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517730
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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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