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together with test scores, we examine the long-term cognitive effects of the 1983 famine on survivors. We show that differences … in intelligence test scores can be robustly explained by the differential impact of the famine in different parts of the … country and the impacts are most severe for children under two years of age during the famine. We also account for model …
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together with test scores, we examine the long-term cognitive effects of the 1983 famine on survivors. We show that differences … in intelligence test scores can be robustly explained by the differential impact of the famine in different parts of the … country and the impacts are most severe for children under two years of age during the famine. We also account for model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570280
Motivated by a recent setback in the fight against child malnutrition, this study explores whether aid projects help to reduce stunting, or impaired growth, among children in the local area. Focusing on Malawi, a country with very high stunting prevalence and for which we have access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013490610
Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430779
together with test scores, we examine the long term cognitive effects of the 1983 famine on survivors. We show that differences … in intelligence test scores can be robustly explained by the differential impact of the famine in different parts of the … country and children under two years during the famine were most adversely affected. We also account for model uncertainty by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091276
Four in five poor people in the Asia and Pacific region live in rural areas. Crop cycles in agrarian areas create periods of seasonal deprivation, or preharvest “lean seasons,” when work is scarce and skipped meals become frequent. In this paper, we document this phenomenon of seasonal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839426
In 2015, Southern Africa experienced a drought that affected approximately 30 million people across seven countries. Using a nationally representative household panel survey dataset and a remotely sensed measure of drought intensity during the 2015/16 farming season, we rigorously estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015330867
In 2015, Southern Africa experienced a drought that affected approximately 30 million people across seven countries. Using a nationally representative household panel survey data set and a remotely sensed measure of drought intensity during the 2015-16 farming season, we rigorously estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015408542
-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero …, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that adverse outcomes due to the famine are largest for infants. Further, in … our regression analysis we exploit the fact that the famine was more severe in urban than in rural areas. Consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270545
This is the first study to analyze effects of in utero exposure to the severe Dutch Hunger Winter famine (1944/45) on … labor market outcomes and hospitalization. This famine is clearly demarcated in time and space. It was not anticipated …. Nutritional conditions were stable before and after the famine. We provide results of exposure by sub-interval of gestation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326449