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We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the …
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What impact do famines have on survivors? We use individual-level data on a population exposed to severe famine conditions during infancy to document two opposing effects. The first: exposure to insufficient food and a worsened disease environment is associated with poor health into adulthood -...
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We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293130
We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163489
In this paper, we analyze the link between nutrition and poverty in two Asian countries where monetary-based poverty … similar improvements in the nutritional situation of the people and especially of children. We find that undernutrition … Organization's threshold. We investigate the factors that influence nutrition outcomes, measured as Z-scores of the weight …
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. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living … stunting differs between urban (14.9%) and rural (19.6%) areas and how the drivers of poor nutrition vary spatially. The … results suggest that, conditional on household income, subsistence farming is associated with a lower probability of stunting …
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diversification strategies on household welfare and health outcomes (i.e. child nutrition) for both rural and urban dwellers. Thus …, this study examines the impact of livelihood (i.e. income) diversification strategies on household welfare and child … nutrition. Eight waves of the Uganda National Panel Survey (2005/06-2019/20) dataset collected by the Uganda Bureau of …
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This paper studies the relationship between pre-famine living conditions and famine severity. I digitise the parish-level returns of the Irish Poor Inquiry and use these to explain the co-variates of increasing poverty in the early nineteenth century and examine how they impacted the severity of...
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-communicable diseases, including diabetes, heart diseases and certain cancers. Given the still prevailing rates of under-nutrition, affected …Many low income countries are experiencing a “nutrition transition” towards the consumption of more energy … consequences of the nutrition transition have been expanding waistlines and surging rates of nutrition-related non …
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food consumption. We also find that the lower tail of the household nutrition distribution drops away very rapidly, so that … allowance is made for the likely consumption of alcohol, household energy intakes were significantly higher still. We … few households suffered serious food shortages. -- nutrition ; well-being ; Britain ; early 20th century …
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