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In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
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In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...
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Despite recent improvements in economic performance, undernutrition rates in Africa appear to have improved much less … growth and reductions of child undernutrition in Africa. We do this by pooling all DHS surveys for African countries, control … for other correlates of undernutrition, and add country-level GDP per capita. We find that increases in GDP per capita are …
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Economic development and inequality is known to have an impact on health outcomes. We show this to be true in India where we study the effect of economic status on under and over nutrition. Inequality is measured using income or assets and we show that both matter for malnutrition. We find women...
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