The Long Term Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from a Unique Natural Experiment using China's Great Famine
Published By: BREAD on eSS | Published Date: April, 14 , 2009This paper estimates the long run impact of famine on survivors in the context of
China's Great Famine. To address problems of measurement error of famine exposure and
potential endogeneity of famine intensity, they exploit a novel source of variation in regional
intensity of famine derived from the unique institutional determinants of the Great Famine.
To address attenuation bias caused by selection for survival, they estimate the impact on
the upper quantiles of the distribution of outcomes. Their results indicate that in-utero
and early childhood exposure to famine had large negative effects on adult height, weight,
weight-for-height, educational attainment and labor supply. URL: [http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/219.pdf]
Author(s): Nancy Qian, Xin Meng | Posted on: Feb 16, 2011 | Views(836) | Download (132)