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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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province, Khatlon. Educational interactions between adults and children under age six are much more frequent. The continued …
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stunting's evolution among South African children and adolescents aged 0–19, with particular attention to how the prevalence of …. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living … standards are controlled for, the higher tendency for children in deep rural households to suffer from (severe) stunting …
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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 based on the weight‐for‐age nutritional status of children in their … care, and also collect data from a control group receiving only their standard salary. Mothers of children in all three …
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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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significantly less. Finally we ask economic migration leads to taller children. To answer that we estimate the influence of children … find that US-based British households are at least as generous in terms of the provision of calories to their children as … their Britain-based counterparts. Other things equal, this means that US-based British children would grow taller. …
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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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We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is also negative, but smaller in magnitude than...
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concentrated on the children with low socioeconomic status (SES) background. These results indicate that fetal insults such as … exposure to malnutrition may not only hamper the cognitive development of children subject to such conditions, but it may also …
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were less likely to have male children. Moreover, children who were in utero during the most severe period of the …
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