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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870194
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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...
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Developments in Undernutrition in Indian Children Under Five : A Decompositional Analysis
Nie, Peng - 2016
conduct a systematic decompositional analysis of the demographic and socio-economic factors contributing to undernutrition …-linear, and unconditional quantile. Child undernutrition is measured by z-scores for height-for-age (HAZ), weight-for-height (WHZ … improvements on some measures, undernutrition among India's young children remains widespread. The improvements we do identify are …
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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
Gazeley, Ian - 2017
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...
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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 …
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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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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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Civil War, Famine and the Persistence of Human Capital : Evidence from Tajikistan
Grogan, Louise - 2022
The dissolution of the Soviet Union and 1992-96 Tajik civil war resulted in huge human and economic losses. Nevertheless, contemporary data suggest the persistence of investments in human capital in the region most affected by famine and least favoured since the cessation of hostilities,...
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