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linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …
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We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
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relationship between conflict and food insecurity in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in … levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, high conflict provinces are not the most food … insecure. Using a simple bivariate regression model of conflict (violent incidents and persons killed or injured) on food …
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This paper investigates the effect of nutritional status on subsequent educational achievements for a large sample of Indonesians children. I use a long term panel data set and apply a maternal fixed effect plus an instrumental variables estimator in order to control for possible correlation...
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. But there is not much evidence on the hypothesized relationship between nutrition status and schooling outcomes. Using the … estimates the impact of nutrition on schooling outcomes. The results suggest that anemic children have a higher probability of … being overage. School attendance seems to be unrelated to nutrition measures. The results are consistent under different …
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DHS survey, suggest that mother’s schooling is a key determinant of children’s nutrition, but its direct marginal … works through the increase of mother’s general knowledge and, to a less extent, of her nutrition knowledge. Mother …
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Hunger affects 800 million people, 11% of humankind. However, it is diminishing in absolute numbers and as a percentage of population as a result of slower population growth, economic development, and increasing farm productivity. Current food output is more than enough to feed all humankind and...
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Hunger afflicts hundreds of millions of people around the world. However, the very concept of hunger is difficult to define, and in fact the whole issue of hunger has been subsumed under the more comprehensive concept of food security. This paper retraces the history of this concept, from its...
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acquired due to their experience. -- conflict resolution ; education ; latent attitudes ; item response models …
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