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Scaling Up Nutrition for a More Resilient Mali: Nutrition Diagnostics and Costed Plan for Scaling Up
Shekar, Meera; Mattern, Max; Eozenou, Patric; Eberwein, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
This paper builds on the global experience and Mali?s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as … costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide … relevant nutrition-specific interventions, largely delivered through the health sector, and at multisectoral nutrition …
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Long-term health effects on the next generation of Ramadan fasting during pregnancy
van Ewijk, Reyn - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1246-1260
Each year, many pregnant Muslim women fast during Ramadan. Using Indonesian cross-sectional data and building upon work of Almond and Mazumder (2011), I show that people who were prenatally exposed to Ramadan fasting have a poorer general health than others. As predicted by medical theory, this...
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Urbanization in Southeast Asia during the World War II Japanese Occupation and Its Aftermath
Huff, Gregg; Huff, Gillian - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
This working paper analyzes demographic change in Southeast Asia's main cities during and soon after the World War II Japanese occupation.  We argue that two main patterns of population movements are evident.  In food-deficient areas, a search for food security typically led to large net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004402
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Urbanization in Southeast Asia during the World War II Japanese Occupation and Its Aftermath
Huff, Gregg; Huff, Gillian - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2014
This working paper analyzes demographic change in Southeast Asia’s main cities during and soon after the World War II Japanese occupation. We argue that two main patterns of population movements are evident. In food-deficit areas, a search for food security typically led to large net inflows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010823442
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Does Famine Matter For Aggregate Adolescent Human Capital Acquisition In Sub-Saharan Africa?
Agbor, Julius A.; Price, Gregory N. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
adolescent human capital and food nutrition production function to estimate the effects of famine on primary school completion … considers the impact of famine on aggregate adolescent human capital formation in Sub-Saharan Africa. We parameterize a joint … food and nutrition produced during childhood and in utero. This suggests that declines in food production and nutrition …
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A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the grandchild's over-all and cardiovascular and diabetes mortality in a single … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747354
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Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on Third Generation Health and Education Outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia R. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during preadolescence. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097052
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
may exceed famine effects by at least a factor three. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098747
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012
provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily …Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185413
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Sins of the fathers: The intergenerational legacy of the 1959-1961 Great Chinese Famine on children's cognitive development:
Tan, Chih Ming; Tan, Zhibo; Zhang, Xiaobo - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014
beings in large part due to lack of data. In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment, the Great Chinese Famine of 1959â … childhood health shocks on the cognitive abilities of the children of parents born during the famine. We find that daughters … born to rural fathers who experienced the famine in early childhood score lower in major tests than sons, whereas children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011132691