This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of China's Great Famine. To address …

during the Great Leap Forward famine in China, and by examining the intergenerational consequences of the famine on those who …

China's 1959-1961 famine caused about 15-30 million excess death tolls, standing out as the worst in human history … individual level dataset, tries to quantify the long-term effects of the famine on the health and economic status of the … serious health and economic consequences for the survivors, especially for those who were in early childhood during the famine …

We estimate long-term effects of famine on chronic diseases using China's Great Leap Forward Famine as a natural … experiment. Using a unique health survey, we explore the heterogeneity of famine intensity across regions and find strong …

data provided by the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) to corroborate evidence supporting the Fetal …We report evidence of long-term adverse health impacts of in utero exposure to malnutrition based on survivors in their … 50s who were born during the China Famine that occurred in the years 1959-1961. We take advantage of recently available …

associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and …This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in seven provinces of China during the 1990s, focusing … specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical …

Relatively few studies have examined the "echo effect" of health shocks related to prenatal and early-life malnutrition … leveraging extreme malnutrition during the Great Leap Forward famine in China, and by examining its intergenerational …

associated with improved nutritional status in the preferred model. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and …This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in seven provinces of China during the 1990s, focusing … specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms and the one child policy. The empirical …

related to health system reform and only-child status. Data are drawn from four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey …This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in China, focusing specifically on those determinants …

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China's Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse … effects on adult health and work capacity. The magnitude of the effect is negatively correlated with age at the onset of the …