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The nutrition transition and indicators of child malnutrition
Kimenju, Simon C.; Qaim, Matin - 2014
We analyze how the nutrition transition affects child malnutrition in developing countries. It is often assumed that the nutrition transition affects child weight but not child growth, which could be one reason why child underweight decreases faster than child stunting. But these effects have...
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The nutrition transition and agricultural transformation : a Preston curve approach
Masters, William Alan; Hall, Anaya; Martinez, Elena M.; … - In: Agricultural economics : the journal of the … 47 (2016), pp. 97-114
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Supermarket food purchases and child nutritional outcomes in Kenya
Legesse Debela, Bethelhem; Demmler, Kathrin M.; Klasen, … - 2018
In many developing countries, supermarkets are spreading rapidly at the expense of traditional food markets and shops. Changing retail environments and food choices may affect consumer diets and nutritional outcomes. Previous research suggested that supermarkets may contribute to rising rates of...
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Food for Thought : Malnutrition and Obesity
Shaw, David J. - 2014
The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2003: Monitoring Progress Towards the World Food Summit and Millenium Goals. By FAO Ending Hunger in Our Lifetime: Food Security and Globalization. By C. Ford Runge, Benjamin Senauer, Philip G. Pardey and Mark W. Rosegrant Combating Malnutrition: Time to...
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Appealing to generosity to reduce food calorie intake : a natural field experiment
Kee, Jennifer; Segovia, Michelle S.; Saboury, Piruz; … - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 110 (2022), pp. 1-16
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Transition and persistence in the double burden of malnutrition and overweight or obesity : evidence from South Africa
Azomahou, Théophile; Diene, Bity; Gosselin-Pali, Adrien - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 113 (2022), pp. 1-14
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Economic stress and body weight during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mathieu-Bolh, Nathalie - In: Studies in microeconomics 9 (2021) 2, pp. 256-282
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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Can unearned income make us fitter? : evidence from lottery wins
Costa-Font, Joan; Gyori, Mario - 2020
Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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The gender-specific role of body weight for health, earnings and life satisfaction in piecewise and simultaneous equations models
Hübler, Olaf - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 5, pp. 653-676
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