Arbeitspapier
Early-Life Famine Exposure, Hunger Recall and Later-Life Health
We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a non-linear relationship between mortality rates, a commonly used famine indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine's effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is much larger than the reduced-form effect found in previous studies. For males, we find no impact.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14487
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Single Equation Models: Single Variables: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
- Subject
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famine
hunger
developmental origins
two-sample instrumental variable
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Deng, Zichen
Lindeboom, Maarten
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Deng, Zichen
- Lindeboom, Maarten
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2021
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