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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
Deaton, Angus - 2005
In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
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A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
and wealth. We propose a revealed preference approach to measuring hunger and undernutrition that overcomes these …
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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61
Meng, Xin - 2010
with higher per capita food production that year suffered higher famine mortality rates, a surprising reversal of a …
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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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Food Insecurity or Poverty? Measuring Need-Related Dietary Adequacy
Bhattacharya, Jayanta - 2002
We examine the extent to which food insecurity questions and the standard poverty measure are correlated with various dietary and physiologic outcomes. Our findings suggest that the correlations vary tremendously by age. We find that the food insecurity questions are correlated with the dietary...
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How Consumer Price Subsidies affect Nutrition
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2013
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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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 of metabolic disease (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease) among normal weight individuals with economic development. Our model is based on a set point for BMI or...
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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
higher mortality during the 1932-33 Soviet Great Famine. All else equal, famine (excess) mortality rates were positively … ethnicity, rather than the administrative boundaries of the Ukrainian republic, mattered for famine mortality. These and many … additional results provide strong evidence that higher Ukrainian famine mortality was an outcome of policy, and suggestive …
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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 supplemented with Social Behavior Change Communication (SBCC) in a subset of villages. The combination of interventions significantly reduced the proportion of children stunted,...
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