In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it … paper provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the famine twenty years later, on the height of young adults aged … studies, famine intensity is measured at the household level, while impacts are assessed using a difference …

In 1984, the world was shocked at the scale of a famine in Ethiopia that caused over half a million deaths, making it … provides the first estimates the long-term impact of the famine twenty years later, on the height of young adults aged 19 …-22 years who experienced this severe shock as infants during the crisis. An innovative feature of the analysis is that famine …

human beings in large part due to lack of data. A natural experiment, the Great Chinese Famine, and a novel dataset are … employed to study this effect. The paper finds that the cognitive abilities of children born to rural famine fathers were … male famine survivors …

beings in large part due to lack of data. In this paper, we exploit a natural experiment, the Great Chinese Famine of 1959 … childhood health shocks on the cognitive abilities of the children of parents born during the famine. We find that daughters … born to rural fathers who experienced the famine in early childhood score lower in major tests than sons, whereas children …

Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to …-scores, with the children in the war-instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffering more than the winning nation (Ethiopia …