The lasting impact of parental early life malnutrition on their offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: KIM, Seonghoon, DENG, Quheng, FLEISHER, Belton M., LI, Shi
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• الموضوعات: fetal origin; malnutrition; schooling; Barker hypothesis; China Famine; Asian Studies; Economics; Health Economics
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1654; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2653/viewcontent/ImpactParentalearlyLifeMalnutritionChinaFamine_2014.pdf

We investigate whether the effects of parents’ in utero malnutrition extend to the second generation (their children). Specifically, we explore whether the second generation’s level of schooling is negatively impacted by their parents’ malnutrition in utero, using the China Famine as a natural exper...