, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We …

provide alternative measures that overcome these drawbacks. Our results, using plant level data for Ireland, show clearly that …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

mortality. The authors test the hypothesis that selection during famine changes the frailty distributions of cohorts and may … being born during the Great Finnish Famine 1866-1868. Swedish cohorts without famine exposure are analysed as a control … group. Cohorts born in Finland during the Great Finnish Famine are highly heterogeneous in their distribution of deaths …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in … society were favorable and stable before and after the famine. This is the first study to analyze effects of in utero exposure … examine long-run effects of this famine. We provide results of famine exposure by sub-interval of gestation. We find a …

individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … often exceed famine effects by a factor three …

This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine … malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact of malnutrition on post-famine pregnancy … outcomes. Using the 1996 Matlab Health and Socioeconomic Survey (MHSS), we find that women who were pregnant during the famine …

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine … show that the famine reduced the marital attractiveness of the famine-born cohort. The conclusion is that the small … observed changes in marriage rates of the famine born cohort are due to a significant decline in marital attractiveness …