We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the … indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine …'s effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 … hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …

exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in … designs, we show that the cohorts exposed to the Dutch Hunger Winter since early gestation have a higher Body Mass Index and …