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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 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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Echo Effects of Early-Life Health Shocks : The Intergenerational Consequences of Prenatal Malnutrition During the Great Leap Forward Famine in China
Li, Jinhu - 2020
wide range of outcomes of children of mothers who were exposed in-utero including income, education, employment, and … affected and their children. We find that on average, the famine had negative echo effects on second-generation outcomes. These …
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Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five : A Decompositional Analysis
Nie, Peng - 2016
improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are … conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition … among children under five in India. The analytic method combines three types of decomposition: Blinder-Oaxaca, non …
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Protecting Child Nutritional Status in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis : Evidence from Indonesia
Giles, John - 2014
exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …
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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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Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health : Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
Kesternich, Iris - 2014
We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes in later life. We combine self-reported data on hunger experiences from SHARELIFE, a retrospective survey conducted as part of SHARE in Europe in 2009, with administrative data...
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Long-Run Longevity Effects of a Nutritional Shock Early in Life : The Dutch Potato Famine of 1846-1847
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, … - 2021
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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Severe Prenatal Shocks and Adolescent Health : Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
Conti, Gabriella; Poupakis, Stavros; Ekamper, Peter; … - 2022
This paper investigates impacts, mechanisms and selection effects of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945), pushing...
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Smarter Through Social Protection? Evaluating the Impact of Ethiopia's Safety-Net on Child Cognitive Abilities
Favara, Marta - 2017
We provide new estimates of the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) in Ethiopia on child … via "graduation" from the scheme, and find a positive effect on children in households that graduated just before 2013 …, but none for children in households that remain in the programme …
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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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