Houser, Daniel; Sands, Barbara; Xiao, Erte - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 69 (2009) 2, pp. 148-159
The millions of deaths that occurred during China's great famine of 1959-1961 were the result of one of the world's greatest civil demographic disasters. Two primary hypotheses have been advanced to explain the famine. One is that China experienced three consecutive years of bad weather while...