کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5094926 1376258 2012 13 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Stunting and selection effects of famine: A case study of the Great Chinese Famine
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Stunting and selection effects of famine: A case study of the Great Chinese Famine
چکیده انگلیسی
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the 1959-1961 Great Chinese Famine, we find that taller children were more likely to survive the famine. Controlling for selection, we estimate that children under the age of five who survived the famine grew up to be 1 to 2 cm shorter. Our results suggest that if a country experiences a shock such as famine, average height is potentially a biased measure of economic conditions during childhood.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Development Economics - Volume 97, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 99-111
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