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Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
-6 years) enrolled in government day-care centers are given recipe books in the treatment group to reduce malnutrition in their …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064298
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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 …
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Performance Pay and Malnutrition
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
in the public health sector. Performance is judged on improvements in child malnutrition. We exogenously change wages of … low absolute incentives. Results show that high absolute incentives reduce severe malnutrition by 6.3 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985677
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Protecting Child Nutritional Status in the Aftermath of a Financial Crisis : Evidence from Indonesia
Giles, John - 2014
In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia's 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early childhood nutritional status. This paper exploits heterogeneity in duration of program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039582
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Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP
Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2011
The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 European Countries for the period 1994-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120149
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The Determinants of Poverty Transitions in Europe and the Role of Duration Dependence
Andriopoulou, Eirini - 2011
The paper examines the mobility into and out of poverty and identifies the determinants of poverty spell beginnings and endings in 14 European Countries for the period 1994-2000, using the European Community Household Panel. The first part of the paper offers a snapshot of poverty mobility in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125145
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Health and Income : A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155155
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State
Mogstad, Magne - 2009
There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences of a major Norwegian workfare reform of the generous welfare system for lone mothers. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155319
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Social Assistance Receipt and its Importance for Combating Poverty in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn - 2007
Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income insecurity. The rapid expansion of the system of social assistance, Di Bao, can be understood from this perspective. Using a survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777030