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Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
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impact of shocks on households, the net welfare effect of risk-induced "ex-ante" changing behaviour, using cross … welfare effect of "ex ante" changing behaviour induced by risk exposure. On the top of that, it assesses robust heterogeneity …
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measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …
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responds to earnings shocks. If productivity depends on nutrition, this explains some but not all of the response, as earnings …
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Using primary data collected during 2007-08 we examine the nutritional status with respect to the two macronutrients (calories and protein) as well as various micronutrients of rural households in three Indian states: Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. We find that, by and large, there...
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effects to high frequency nutrition surveillance data, and present suggestive evidence of links between maternal … undernutrition and the subsequent nutrition of offspring. …
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We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the true impact of conflict, we use (1) pre-war and post-war household data, (2) the specific counts of conflict events across departments and (3) self-reported victimization...
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nutrition. While consumer subsidies for maize increase calorie and mineral consumption, they contribute to a higher prevalence …
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This paper is about the determination and prediction of permanent income in household data. Standard static welfare … determination. Simultaneous estimation of the model allows us to compare how well different standard static welfare indicators … causal variables and in the standard static welfare indicators. The paper is closed by an application of the methodology to …
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