cannot make large cuts in caloric intake without suffering serious health consequences. These results provide empirical …

cannot make large cuts in caloric intake without suffering serious health consequences. These results provide empirical …

animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … grandchildren of those exposed to the famine at ages 8-12. Our findings support and extend the evidence so far. Among the third … generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably …

Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably …

animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … grandchildren of those exposed to the famine at ages 8-12. Our findings support and extend the evidence so far. Among the third … generation, males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was …

exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in … population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective health measurements for the …

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China’s Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse …In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars combined. Many more were …

family has a sufficient amount of food, and deteriorated child nutrition. There is also a differential effect between … vulnerable groups that are most likely to benefit from programs designed to provide sufficient nutrition to the population. …