Stunting and selection effects of famine: A case study of the Great Chinese Famine

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 Gr...

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Published in:Journal of development economics 2012, Vol.97 (1), p.99-111
Main Authors: Gørgens, Tue, Meng, Xin, Vaithianathan, Rhema
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Case studies
Childhood
Children
China
Communism
Data analysis
Developing countries
Economic conditions
Economic models
Economic theory
Famine
Height
Human growth
LDCs
Malnutrition
Measurement
Panel data
Population economics
Post-war history
Selection effects
Social history
Studies
Survival
Well being
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