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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity : the experience of Afghan households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...

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The variability and volatility of sleep: an archetypal approach

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022

individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … rates. Volatility in sleep spills over onto volatility in other personal activities, with no reverse causation onto sleep …

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From riches to rags, and back? : institutional change, financial development and economic growth in Argentina since the 1890s

Campos, Nauro; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2014

individual effects on economic growth and volatility using the power-ARCH framework with annual data since the 1890s. The results …

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Financial literacy and food security in extremely vulnerable households

Millimet, Daniel L.; McDonough, Ian K.; Fomby, Thomas B. - 2015

Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in the US. Unfortunately, we know very little about the determinants of food security except that it is not synonymous with poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food...

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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015

This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...

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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature

Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict...

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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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Food prices and body fatness among youths

Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2013

In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI) and percentage body fat (PBF) measures derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), among youths ages 12 through 18. The...

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The first world war and working-class food consumption in Britain

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2010

In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these...

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Rising food prices and household welfare : evidence from Brazil in 2008

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Fruttero, Anna; Leite, … - 2011

Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price...

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