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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004
measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261851
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Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? : Evidence from England
Currie, Alison; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2004
evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262070
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Can economic crises be good for your diet?
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick - 2011
With fortuitously timed data - collected before, during and after a major macro-financial crisis in Bulgaria - we revisit several hypotheses in the economics and nutritional literature related to the tendency of households to smooth their nutritional status over time. We explore the dietary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278592
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The first world war and working-class food consumption in Britain
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2010
In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World War. At the end of the War the Sumner Committee was convened to investigate into effects of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278730
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Urban working-class food consumption and nutrition in Britain in 1904
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - 2012
food consumption. We also find that the lower tail of the household nutrition distribution drops away very rapidly, so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289869
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Urban-rural disparities of child health and nutritional status in China from 1989 to 2006
Liu, Hong; Fang, Hai; Zhao, Zhong - 2012
Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and nutritional disparities between urban and rural … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989-2006. The results show that on average …This paper analyzes urban-rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282311
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Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from China
Lin, Carl; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2018
associated with the nutritional status of children in rural and urban China. Results from instrumental variables regressions show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984546
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Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China
Pieters, Janneke; Rawlings, Samantha - 2016
This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524952
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Social Disadvantage and Children's Nutritional Status in Rural-Urban Migrant Households
Lin, Carl; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2020
children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497789
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Perspectives on the Early Retirement Decisions of Farming Couples
Väre, Minna; Heshmati, Almas - 2004
In the past decade, the European agricultural sector has undergone rapid structural change. Part of that change is manifested in extended early retirement plans. As pensions play a crucial role in determining the characteristics the change, it is important to establish the factors determining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262082