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Using panel econometric methods to estimate the effect of milk consumption on the mortality rate of prostate and ovarian cancer
Hagen, Tobias; Waldeck, Stefanie - Fachbereich Wirtschaft und Recht, Fachhochschule … - 2014
-sectional analyses. This paper takes a step toward estimating of causal effects of milk consumption on cancer by applying panel … are applied. The results indicate fairly well that milk consumption increases both the mortality rate of prostate cancer … as well as the mortality rate of ovarian cancer. The estimated effects are also important in quantitative terms, i.e., a …
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Food Prices and Population Health in Developing Countries: An Investigation of the Effects of the Food Crisis Using a Panel Analysis
Lee, Suejin; Lim, Jae-Young; Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Cyn-Young - Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank - 2013
development, and lowering labor productivity for the economy in the long term. We employ a panel dataset covering 63 developing … population health measured by infant mortality rate, child mortality rate, and the prevalence of undernourishment. We find that …
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Determinants of Food Consumption During Pregnancy in Rural Bangladesh: Examination of Evaluative Data from the Bangladesh Integrated Nutrition Project
Karim, Rezaul; Bhat, Deepa; Troy, Lisa; Lamstein, Sascha; … - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2002
The common practice of reducing food consumption during pregnancy is recognized as a primary cause of poor pregnancy outcomes and, in turn, malnutrition among young children in many developing countries including Bangladesh. This paper analyzes data from the 1998 Mid-Term Evaluation of the...
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Food-Based Safety Nets and Related Programs
Rogers, Beatrice Lorge; Coates, Jennifer - Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition … - 2002
Food-based safety net programs support adequate consumption and contribute to assuring livelihoods. They differ from other safety net programs in that they are tied to the provision of food, either directly, or through cash-like instruments (food stamps, coupons) that may be used to purchase...
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The Effect of Prices on Nutrition: Comparing the Impact of Product- and Nutrient-Specific Taxes
Harding, Matthew; Lovenheim, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper provides an analysis of the role of prices in determining food purchases and nutrition using very detailed transaction-level observations for a large, nationally-representative sample of US consumers over the period 2002-2007. Using product- specific nutritional information, we...
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Relationship between Happiness and Smoking: A Bootstrap Panel Causality Test
Chang, Tsangyao; Chu, Hsiao-Ping; Deale, Frederick W.; … - Department of Economics, Faculty of Economic and … - 2014
This study applies the recently developed bootstrap panel causality test proposed by Kónya (2006) to investigate the …
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The effects of reducing European and American subsidies on agricultural exports of developing countries
Torayeh, Neveen M. - In: Journal of Developing Areas 44 (2011) 2, pp. 349-366
Although the key issue in the WTO negotiations on agriculture is subsidies reduction, the EU and USA still account more than 85% of the world agriculture subsidies. An important policy question confronting developing countries is whether the reduction agreed within the Hong Kong conference could...
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Did 1933 new deal legislation contribute to farm real estate values: A regional analysis
Shaik, Saleem; Atwood, Joseph A.; Helmers, Glenn A. - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 34 (2012) 6, pp. 801-816
-cyclical nature of farm program payments and farm returns. Procedures are presented that allow the estimation of agriculture land … or farm program payments. Results from the panel recursive or triangular-structure simultaneous equation model applied to …
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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
To the extent that in utero and childhood malnutrition negatively affects later stage mental and physical health, it can possibly constrain later stage human capital acquisition, which is an important driver of economic growth. This paper considers the impact of famine on aggregate adolescent...
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Price Discovery and Price Risk Management Before and After Deregulation of the South African Maize Industry
Behar, Alexander - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2011
The withdrawal of the Maize Board in 1996 meant that farmers could no longer rely on its pre-planting price or “voorskot†for price discovery and price risk management. Some have claimed (UNCTAD, 2007) that the South African Futures Exchange (SAFEX) can provide these functions. We test...
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