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Economic Development, the Nutrition Trap and Metabolic Disease

Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan; Oommen, Anu; Singh, Swapnil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This research provides a single explanation for: (i) the persistence of malnutrition and (ii) the increased prevalence …

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The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932–33

Markevič, Andrej M.; Naumenko, Natalya; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This study constructs a large new dataset to investigate whether state policy led to ethnic Ukrainians experiencing higher mortality during the 1932-33 Soviet Great Famine. All else equal, famine (excess) mortality rates were positively associated with ethnic Ukrainian population share across...

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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States

Collins, William J. - 2018

The repeated failure of Ireland's potato crop in the late 1840s led to a major famine and a surge in migration to the US. We build a dataset of Irish immigrants and their sons by linking males from 1850 to 1880 US census records. For comparison, we also link German and British immigrants, their...

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Are Behavioral Change Interventions Needed to Make Cash Transfer Programs Work for Children? : Experimental Evidence from Myanmar

Field, Erica Marie; Maffioli, Elisa M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We experimentally evaluate the impact on child malnutrition of a maternal cash transfer program in Myanmar that was …

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A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition

Jensen, Robert T. - 2010

Caloric intake and minimum calorie thresholds are widely used in developing countries to assess hunger and nutrition, and to construct poverty lines. However, it is generally recognized that the sufficiency of an individual's caloric intake cannot be determined, due to: a lack of consensus on...

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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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Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?

Jensen, Robert T. - 2010

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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The Long Term Consequences of Famine on Survivors : Evidence from a Unique Natural Experiment using China's Great Famine

Meng, Xin - 2009

This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and potential endogeneity of famine intensity, we exploit a novel source of variation in regional intensity of famine derived from...

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Long-Term Effects Of The 1959-1961 China Famine : Mainland China and Hong Kong

Almond, Douglas - 2007

This paper estimates the effects of maternal malnutrition exploiting the 1959-1961 Chinese famine as a natural … experiment. In the 1% sample of the 2000 Chinese Census, we find that fetal exposure to acute maternal malnutrition had …. Women married spouses with less education and later, as did men, if at all. In addition, maternal malnutrition reduced the …

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The Transformation of Hunger : The Demand for Calories Past and Present

Logan, Trevon D. - 2005

According to conventional income measures, nineteenth century American and British industrial workers were two to four times as wealthy as poor people in developing countries today. Surprisingly, however, today's poor are less hungry than yesterday's wealthy industrial workers. I estimate the...

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