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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
Meng, Xin - 2010
This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered...
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A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition
Jensen, Robert T. - 2014
and wealth. We propose a revealed preference approach to measuring hunger and undernutrition that overcomes these …Caloric intake and minimum calorie thresholds are widely used in developing countries to assess hunger and nutrition …
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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?
Jensen, Robert T. - 2014
Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However, subsidizing goods on which households spend a high proportion of their budget can create large wealth effects. Consumers may then substitute towards foods with higher...
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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy
Bhattacharya, Jay; Haider, Steven J.; Currie, Janet - 2021
related to the diets of children. In contrast, poverty predicts dietary outcomes among preschoolers. Among adults, both …
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How Consumer Price Subsidies Affect Nutrition
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2014
We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption patterns in favor of the subsidized grains and...
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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel'S 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
Deaton, Angus - 2021
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with …
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Second Thoughts on the European Escape from Hunger : Famines, Price Elasticities, Entitlements, Chronic Malnutrition, and Mortality Rates
Fogel, Robert W. - 2022
The six principal findings of this paper are as follows: (1) crisis mortality accounted for less than 5 percent of total mortality in England prior to 1800 and the elimination of crisis mortality accounted for just 15 percent of the decline in total mortality between the eighteenth and...
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Expanding Governance as Development : Evidence on Child Nutrition in the Philippines
Berman, Eli - 2016
Worldwide, extreme poverty is often concentrated in spaces where people and property are not safe enough to sustain effective markets, and where development assistance is dangerous – and might even induce violence. Expanding governance by coercively taking control of territory may enable...
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Child Age and Gender Differences in Food Security in a Low-Income Inner-City Population
Moffitt, Robert A. - 2016
A long literature in economics studies differential allocations of resources to children within the family. In a study … of approximately 1,600 very disadvantaged households with children in three cities in the U.S. from 1999 to 2005 …, significant differences in levels of food allocation, as measured by an indicator of food “insecurity,” are found across children …
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Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?
Courtemanche, Charles - 2018
food security of households and children, as measured by number of affirmative responses to a food insecurity questionnaire … and an indicator for food insecurity. The effects are largest among low-income households and children, but are also … sizeable for middle-income children …
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