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Does greater autonomy among women provide the key to better child nutrition?
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhaskar, Anjor; Srivastava, Nisha - 2016
We examine the link between a mother's autonomy – the freedom and ability to think, express, act and make decisions independently – and the nutritional status of her children. We design a novel statistical framework that accounts for cultural and traditional environment, to create a measure...
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2014
may exceed famine effects by at least a factor three. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462244
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Evolution of poor food access over the course of the conflict in the Republic of Yemen
Tandon, Sharad; Vishwanath, Tara - 2019
famine. Although the violence has undeniably had a significant impact on the population and local outcomes, the temporal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008383
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … often exceed famine effects by a factor three. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011489844
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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014
animal studies. We provide an external validation by analyzing the impact of the German famine of 1916-1918 on children and … grandchildren of those exposed to the famine at ages 8-12. Our findings support and extend the evidence so far. Among the third …
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The long-term effects of the Chinese great famine on mental health
Wang, Chenggang; Wang, Huixia - In: Applied economics letters 29 (2022) 5, pp. 455-461
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Taking Stock of Fiscal Health: Trends in Global, Regional, and Country Level Health Financing
Fleisher, Lisa; Leive, Adam; Schieber, George - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
overall government revenue, expenditure, and GDP trends between 1995 and 2010. The study uses available data from the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829330
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Does Famine Matter For Aggregate Adolescent Human Capital Acquisition In Sub-Saharan Africa?
Agbor, Julius A.; Price, Gregory N. - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
considers the impact of famine on aggregate adolescent human capital formation in Sub-Saharan Africa. We parameterize a joint … adolescent human capital and food nutrition production function to estimate the effects of famine on primary school completion … associated with famine in Sub-Saharan Africa have large negative effects on the acquisition of human capital by adolescents and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598098
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
may exceed famine effects by at least a factor three. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098747
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012
individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … often exceed famine effects by a factor three. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185413