SHI, Xinzheng - In: China Economic Review 22 (2011) 2, pp. 244-259
In this paper, I investigate the long term effects of China's Great Famine in 1959-1961 on cohorts affected by the famine in the first year of life. Using China's 2000 population census data and after controlling for positive fertility selections in the famine, I find that women exposed to the...