To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity … a key role in attenuating the economic consequences of agricultural productivity shocks. Exploiting firm-level variation …

, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We …

booster shot on firms' labour productivity. This effect is significantly larger than the effect of a single grant. A more …

conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative … animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … grandchildren of those exposed to the famine at ages 8-12. Our findings support and extend the evidence so far. Among the third …

More than half a century has passed since the Great Chinese Famine (1959-1961), and China has transformed from a poor …, underdeveloped country to the world's leading emerging economy. Does the effect of the famine persist today? To explore this question …, we combine historical data on province-level famine exposure with contemporary data on individual wealth. To better …

exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in …

can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a non-linear relationship between mortality rates, a commonly used famine … 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 …