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Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and circumstance in determining health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease burden that an individual will face in middle age (David...
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Height, Health and Cognitive Function at Older Ages
Case, Anne; Paxson, Christina - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008
Research across a number of disciplines has highlighted the role of early life health and circumstance in determining health and economic outcomes at older ages. Nutrition in utero and in infancy may set the stage for the chronic disease burden that an individual will face in middle age (David...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738493
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Month of Birth and Children's Health in India
Lokshin, Lokshin , Michael; Radyakin, Sergiy - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon months have lower anthropometric scores compared with...
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Diet Diversification and Diet Quality in India: An Analysis
Gaiha, Raghav; Kaicker, Nidhi; Imai, Katsushi S.; … - Research Institute for Economics and Business … - 2012
Our study examines changes in diets over the period 1993-2009. Diets have shifted away from cereals towards higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, oils and livestock products. Using household data, a food diversity index (FDI) is constructed, based on five food commodities. Significant price...
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Poverty, Dietary Imbalance and Sickness among Casual Labourer Households in Shillong (India)
Mishra, SK; Lyngskor, JW - EconWPA - 2005
The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … 48.95 percent of income) on food articles yielding energy. Some 38.4 percent of these households are below poverty line … in the sample households are below poverty line. The mean energy intake of these households is slightly less than 1600 …
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: Received wisdom versus reality: height, nutrition, and urbanization in mid-nineteenth-century France
Heyberger, Laurent - In: Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and … 8 (2014) 1, pp. 115-140
Since the pioneering study of Le Roy Ladurie and his team, the idea that mean height can be considered as a reliable indicator of the standard of living has emerged from a long debate among historians and economists. Considering height in this respect, nineteenth-century France, unlike most...
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Towards an Objective Account of Nutrition and Health in Colonial Kenya: A Study of Stature in African Army Recruits and Civilians, 1880-190
Moradi, Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
How well did Kenyans do under colonial rule?  It is common sense that Kenyans suffered under exploitative colonial policies.  The overall impact, however, is uncertain.  This study presents fresh evidence on nutrition and health in colonial Kenya by (1) using a new and comprehensive data set...
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Heights and Development in a Cash-Crop Colony: Living Standards in Ghana, 1870-1980
Moradi, Alexander; Austin, Gareth; Baten, Jorg - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2013
While Ghana is a classic case of economic growth in an agriculturalâ€export colony, scholars have queried whether it was sustained, and how far its benefits were widely distributed, socially and regionally. Using height as a measure of human wellâ€being we explore the evolution of living...
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Tall claims: Mortality selection and the height of children in India
Alderman, Harold; Lokshin, Michael; Radyakin, Sergiy - In: Economics & Human Biology 9 (2011) 4, pp. 393-406
Data from three rounds of nationally representative health surveys in India (1992/93, 1998/99 and 2005/06) are used to assess the impact of selective mortality on children's anthropometrics. The nutritional status of the child population was simulated under the counterfactual scenario that all...
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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty: The Indian Experience
Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010
deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …
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