We study how income shock affect due to weather shock causally impacts the birth outcomes. We selected households … income shock due to change in weather conditions. We tested the hypothesis by introducing weather shock in the cropping … efficiency loss attributed to weather shock for major food crops to the extent of 20%. However, we find that access to technology …

We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes … suggest that individual behavior is a pathway between early life shocks and adult health: We find that those who experienced … hunger spend a larger fraction of income on food. Taken together, our results confirm that in addition to the well …