estimates the impact of the 2009 global financial crisis on food expenditures, health care expenditures, and doctor visits in … matching technique. The analysis finds that household health and nutritional behavior indicators do not vary statistically … that crisis-affected poor families curtailed their out-of-pocket health expenditures during and after the crisis more than …

capita income is today as a result of some of its workers having been stunted in childhood. The analysis uses a development … avoid double counting. The estimates show that, on average, the per capita income penalty from stunting is around 7 percent …

specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical … relationship between income and nutritional status, and the extent to which that relationship is mediated by access to quality … variables models. In the preferred model - a fixed effects model where income is instrumented - the author find that being an …

likely to face considerable exposure to uninsured income risk, such resource flows should translate into better risk bearing … very young children are particularly vulnerable to shocks that lead to growth faltering, with substantial long-term health … flows allow households to extend better nutrition and health care protection to girls. Recent work on the intra …