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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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Long-Term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy : A Re-Analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868
Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele - 2011
Famines are extreme cases of environmental stress, and have been used by a series of studies to explore the long-term consequences of the fetal or childhood environment. Results are inconsistent and do not support negative long-term effects on mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that...
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring : Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
Kim, Seonghoon - 2010
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137786
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The Transformation of Hunger Revisited
Gazeley, Ian - 2014
We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late 19th century. Using the same data, we conclude that Logan's estimates are thirty percent too low. Logan buttressed his estimates by claiming that the income elasticity of...
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
Scholte, Robert - 2014
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066685
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
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The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes : Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine
Hernández-Julián, Rey - 2013
malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073843
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Large Demographic Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market
Brandt, Loren - 2009
This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine affected cohorts in rural areas of Sichuan and Anhui. The reduced form estimates incorporate general equilibrium and heterogeneous treatment effects, two important components of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158523
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Echo Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks : The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition During the Great Leap Forward Famine in China
Li, Jinhu - 2020
Few studies have examined the "echo effect" of early-life shocks related to prenatal malnutrition, that is, whether the … legacy of such shocks is transmitted to the next generation. This study addresses this gap by leveraging extreme malnutrition … of sons born to mothers exposed to prenatal malnutrition during the famine and cultural aspects such as son preference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835808
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Neonatal Death in India : Birth Order in a Context of Maternal Undernutrition
Coffey, Diane - 2019
's high prevalence of maternal undernutrition and its correlation with age and childbearing can explain this pattern. We find …
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