The long-term health and economic consequences of the 1959-1961 famine in China.

By Yuyu Chen, Li-an Zhou. Journal of Health Economics, 2007

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health

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Benefit in the wake of disaster: Long-run effects of earthquakes on welfare in rural Indonesia (2016, background): “…large disasters that generate substantial losses in human capital (through deaths and health consequences), such as droughts (e.g., Maccini and Yang 2009), famines (e.g., Chen and Zhou 2007), civil conflicts (e.g., Leon 2012, and, for a survey, Blattman and Miguel 2010), did have lasting effects.”
Living through the Great Chinese Famine: Early-life experiences and managerial decisions ☆ (2018, methodology): “6 Chen and Zhou (2007) note that grain production decreased 15% in 1959 compared to the year before and in 1960, grain production only amounted to 70% of output in 1958. 7 Riskin (1998) notes that the reliability of these statistics should be taken with a grain of salt, as the official statistical s”
A century of trends in adult human height (2016, neutral): “There is also evidence that taller people on average have higher education, earnings, and possibly even social position ( Adair et al., 2013 ; Stulp et al., 2015 ; Barker et al., 2005 ; Strauss and Thomas, 1998 ; Chen and Zhou, 2007 ; Case and Paxson, 2008 ).”
Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life (2016, positive): “, 2009) to around 3 centimetres for the 1959–61 Chinese famine (Chen and Zhou, 2007). 6 Barring famines that affected only a few respondents, like the German 1916/8 famine; see Van den Berg and Pinger (2014). Our analysis restricts attention to births in 1920–55.”
The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961 (2015, positive): “In columns (9)-(12), we repeat the same estimation except the independent variable is now the interaction term between the average annual grain production during 1954-58 and a dummy for 1960.”
Inequality at Birth: Some Causes and Consequences (2011, neutral): “Chen and Zhou (2007) rely on a small sample and pool children affected in utero with those affected in early childhood.”