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Stunting and selection effects of famine: a case study of the great Chinese famine
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - 2007
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...
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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition: Evidence from the Greek famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270545
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - 2004
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and short-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261851
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
This paper explores secular changes in women?s pay relative to men?s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261859
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The Dynamics of Food Deprivation and Overall Health: Evidence from the Canadian National Population Health Survey
McLeod, Logan; Veall, Michael R. - 2002
The paper explores whether the responses to food deprivation questions on the longitudinal Canadian National Population Health Survey help explain the links between socio-economic status and health. Transitions in food deprivation status are correlated with changes in health status. While health...
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Multiple Imputation von fehlenden Werten mit Daten über Unterernährung und Kindersterblichkeit
Gartner, Hermann; Scheid, Sandro - 2003
In dieser Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen einer Ersetzung von fehlenden Werten auf das Ergebnis einer Regressionsanalyse untersucht. Grundlage ist eine Untersuchung von Klasen (2000) über die Unterschiede im Zusammenhang zwischen Unterernährung und Kindersterblichkeit in Afrika und Südasien....
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A multilevel approach to explain child mortality and undernutrition in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Harttgen, Kenneth; Misselhorn, Mark - 2006
While undernutrition among children is very pervasive both in Sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia, child mortality is … mortality. This di erent pattern of child mortality and undernutrition in both regions is well known, but approaches using … mortality as well as child undernutrition based on DHS data sets for a sample of ve developing countries in South Asia and Sub …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265078
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Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy
Klasen, Stephan - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … inter-regional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265082
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The impact of HIV on children's welfare
Harttgen, Kenneth - 2007
HIV-infected household members on child mortality, undernutrition and educational attainment for Burkina Faso, Cameroon … child transmission. Whereas no effect of HIV is found on child mortality and undernutrition, a negative effect for school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265083
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Poverty, undernutrition, and child mortality: some inter-regional puzzles and their implications for research and policy
Klasen, Stephan - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … inter-regional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268051