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

• Main Authors: KIM, Seonghoon, DENG, Quheng, FLEISHER, Belton M., LI, Shi
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• 主題: fetal origin; malnutrition; schooling; Barker hypothesis; China Famine; Asian Studies; Economics; Health Economics
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1654; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2653/viewcontent/ImpactParentalearlyLifeMalnutritionChinaFamine_2014.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

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...