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Long-run longevity effects of a nutritional shock early in life : the Dutch potato famine of 1846 - 1847
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor);  … - 2007
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 … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …
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Parental unemployment and child health in China
Pieters, Janneke; Rawlings, Samantha - 2016
This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel data for the period 1997-2004, when the country underwent economic reforms leading to massive layoffs. We find that paternal unemployment reduces child health, while maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497178
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...
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Long-term effects of childhood nutrition : evidence from a school lunch reform
Alex-Petersen, Jesper; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2017
We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of the policy across municipalities and employ a difference- in-differences design to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776044
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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
study arms receive nutrition information. We find that performance pay reduces the prevalence of underweight by about 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517727
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Nutrition in interwar Britain : a possible resolution of the healthy or hungry 1930s debate?
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin; … - 2018
Twentieth Century. Finally, we examine the impact of state interventions to improve diet and nutrition and conclude that these …
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Parental migration decisions and child health outcomes : evidence from China
Lin, Carl; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen - 2018
This study uses migrant household survey data from 2008 and 2009 to examine how parental migration decisions are associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show a substantial adverse effect of children's exposure...
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Migration and young child nutrition : evidence from rural China
Mu, Ren; De Brauw, Alan - 2013
The unprecedented large scale rural-to-urban migration in China has left many rural children living apart from their parents. In this study, we examine the impact of parental migration on the nutritional status of young children in rural areas. We use the interaction terms between wage growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763248
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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the grandchild's over-all and cardiovascular and diabetes mortality in a single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252665
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The impacts of a multifaceted pre-natal intervention on human capital accumulation in early life
Carneiro, Pedro; Kraftman, Lucy; Mason, Giacomo; Moore, … - 2020
We evaluate an intervention targeting early life nutrition and well-being for households in extreme poverty in Northern …
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