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Productive benefits of health : evidence from low-income countries

Schultz, T. Paul - 2005

Various household survey indicators of adult nutrition and health status are analyzed as determinants of individual … wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by …. Although there are no definitive methods for distinguishing between human capital and genetic variation in health outcomes …

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Papua New Guinea survey report : rural household survey on food systems

Schmidt, Emily; Gilbert, Rachel; Holtemeyer, Brian; … - 2019

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Chapter 23 Civil War

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 711-739). 2007

Civil wars are intricate social, political and psychological phenomena. However, economics can offer analytical insights which are useful alongside the more conventional approach of case-studies. Indeed, the policy conclusions drawn from economic analysis sometimes cast doubt on conventional...

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The impact of World War II on nutrition and children's health in Italy

Daniele, Vittorio; Ghezzi, Renato - In: Investigaciones de historia económica 15 (2019) 2, pp. 119-131

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Nutritional status of children in Bangladesh : measuring Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure (CIAF) and its determinants

Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Raza, Muhammad Ali - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 8 (2014) 1, pp. 11-23

The objective of the current analysis is to see the factors responsible for malnutrition in children (under-5 years) in urban and rural areas of Bangladesh. In this study binary logistic model is applied to 1831 observations of urban and 3427 observations of rural areas. The Composite Index of...

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Nutritional status and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa, 1950-1980

Moradi, Alexander - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006

Nutrition and health are important dimensions of human well-being. Both aspects are complementary to income and deserve …

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Spatial correlates of U.S. heights and BMIs, 2002

Komlos, John; Lauderdale, Benjamin E. - 2004

Aiming to further explore possible underlying causes for the recent stagnation in American heights, this paper describes the result of analysis of the commercial U.S. Sizing Survey. Using zip codes available in the data set, we consider geographic correlates of height such as local poverty rate,...

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Evaluating nutrition and health impacts of agricultural innovations

Qaim, Matin - 2014

Agricultural innovations are seen as a key avenue to improve nutrition and health in smallholder farm households. But … details of these agriculture-nutrition-health linkages are not yet well understood. While there is a broad literature on the … nutrition and health dimensions more explicitly. A conceptual framework is developed to clarify possible impact pathways …

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Civil Conflict and Ethnic Identity : A Disaggregated Level Study in Africa

Jiang, Haicheng - 2018

I show that contemporary civil conflict has detrimental effects on social capital in Africa. Using individual-level survey data on ethnic identity and group-level data on civil conflict, I find that ethnic identity is positively correlated with the incidence and the intensity of civil conflict,...

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The dietary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate; Stroud, Rebekah - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to significant changes in where people work, eat and socialise. We use novel data on the food and non-alcoholic drink purchases from stores, takeaways, restaurants and other outlets to quantify the impact of the pandemic on the diets of a large, representative panel...

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