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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven; Thomas, Duncan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
measures of nutrition – gross energy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure of net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822690
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Poverty, Undernutrition, and Child Mortality: Some Inter-Regional Puzzles and their Implications for Research and Policy
Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … Africa, but childhood undernutrition is by far the highest in South Asia, while the share of people with insufficient … interregional paradoxes, particularly the ones related to undernourishment and childhood undernutrition. The paper suggests that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822811
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Urban Working-Class Food Consumption and Nutrition in Britain in 1904
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
food consumption. We also find that the lower tail of the household nutrition distribution drops away very rapidly, so that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163485
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The Transformation of Hunger Revisited
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew T.; Bezabih, Mintewab - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure to the month of Ramadan as a natural experiment that might cause shocks to the inflow of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095510
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Is Leaving Home a Hardship?
Ribar, David C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Nest-leaving – the transition of young adults from their parents' homes to other living arrangements – is a major life-course milestone. Although the causes of nest-leaving have been extensively researched, only a few studies have examined the changes in young adults' own assessments of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889994
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A Validation Study of Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on the Third Generation Offspring's Economic and Health Outcomes Potentially Driven by Epigenetic Imprinting
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747354
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Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? Evidence from England
Currie, Alison; Shields, Michael A.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761681
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The Impact on Nutrition of the Intrahousehold Distribution of Power
Djebbari, Habiba - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The distribution of income within the household is found to matter for the allocation of resources towards nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761995
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation During the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial demarcations are clear, it was severe, it was not anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646289