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The long-run economic consequences of iodine supplementation
Araújo, Daniel; Carrillo, Bladimir; Sampaio, Breno - 2021
We present evidence on the impacts of a large-scale iodine supplementation program in Tanzania on individuals' long-term economic outcomes. Exploiting the timing and location of the intervention, we document that in utero exposure to the program increased completed years of education and income...
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Food Prices and Population Health in Developing Countries : An Investigation of the Effects of the Food Crisis Using a Panel Analysis
Lee, Suejin - 2015
a greater share of agriculture in gross domestic product …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035086
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Food prices and population health in developing countries : an investigation of the effects of the food crisis using a panel analysis
Lee, Suejin; Lim, Jae-young; I, Hyeon hun; Park, Cyn-Young - 2013
a greater share of agriculture in gross domestic product. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192311
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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings : A Cross-Country Study
Tansel, Aysit; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323024
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The Impact of Body Mass Index on Growth, Schooling, Productivity, and Savings : A Cross-Country Study
Tansel, Aysit; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021
We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324576
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Global Inequality in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health
Bell, Winnie - 2020
opportunities for agriculture and food policies, as well as aid in prioritizing research objectives and donor funding for the coming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829723
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Posh spice or scary spice? : resource booms, wealth, and human capital across ages
Boone, Christopher; Kaila, Heidi; Sahn, David E. - 2024
We examine the impact of a six-fold increase in the global vanilla price on smallholder vanilla-farming households in Madagascar. The price increase leads to sizable gains in household assets and significant improvements in adult psychological well-being, cognitive performance, and optimism...
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Russia's food security and climate change : looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - 2013
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … south there is a possibility of drier climate, which has a negative impact on crop yields and livestock productivity. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194902
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Agriculture and the twofold relationship between food security and climate change : evidence from Romania
Istudor, Nicolae; Ion, Raluca Andreea; Petrescu, Irina Elena - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 21 (2019) 51, pp. 285-293
Nowadays, agriculture is facing a special challenge - to produce more food for a growing population, while reducing … greenhouse gas emissions caused by food production. This piece of research is focused on the impact of agriculture on climate … change, starting from the assumption that agriculture is affected by climate variability, but also it contributes to it by …
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UN Food Systems Summit 2021 - what role science and innovation in the summit and in countries' plans and why?
Braun, Joachim von - 2023
attention to science in countries' strategies. The relative weight of agriculture in the national economy shows some positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484781