Agricultural Volatility and Investments in Children

By Robert T. Jensen. 2000

495 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a5714ee51e0046a1d3eff1bd61c3f27cc99968e1

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In General Health Professions

In Sociology and Political Science

In Soil Science

Citations in the corpus

Long-Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in Nineteenth-Century France (2010, background): “At the same time, evidence from developing countries suggests, not surprisingly, that young children’s nutritional status is affected by family income (see, e.g., Jensen, 2000, and Duflo, 2003).”
Social Networks and the Decision to Insure (2015, background): “In order to maintain food security and shield farmers from negative weather shocks, in 2009 the Chinese government requested the People’s Insurance Company of China (PICC) to design and oﬀer the ﬁrst rice production insurance policy to rural households in 31 pilot counties.”
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster (2013, background): “…files: the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), a repeated cross sectional survey of household economic outcomes conducted by the Filipino government every three years; and the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), a suite of cross sectional household-level health and fertility surveys.”
Long-term consequences of early childhood malnutrition (2006, unknown): “11 Also, see Jensen (2000).”
Long Run Health Impacts of Income Shocks: Wine and Phylloxera in 19th Century France (2007, background): “At the same time, evidence from developing countries suggests that young children’s nutritional status, not surprisingly, is affected by family income (see e.g. Jensen, 2000, Duflo, 2003).”
Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence (2010, background): “Data from Ivory Coast indicates that the prevalence of malnutrition among children increased by 3-4 percentage points in those parts of the country more exposed to both positive and negative rainfall shocks between 1986 and 1987 (Jensen, 2000).”
Can conditional cash transfer programs serve as safety nets in keeping children at school and from working when exposed to shocks (2006, background): “Jensen (2000) and Beegle et al. (2005) show that agricultural shocks increase child labor and reduce school attainment in Côte d’Ivoire and Tanzania, respectively.”
From Poverty to Disaster and Back: a Review of the Literature (2020, background): “In Africa, enrollment rates have declined 20% in regions affected by drought (Jensen 2000); drought-affected households have delayed starting children in school by 3.”
Globalization and the Great Divergence: terms of trade booms, volatility and the poor periphery, 1782–1913 (2008, background): “Furthermore, severe cuts in health and education follow negative shocks to household income in poor countries − cuts that disproportionately affect children and hence long-term human capital accumulation (Jensen 2000; Jacoby and Skoufias 1997; Frankenburg et al. 1999; Thomas et al. 2004).”
Child growth, shocks, and food aid in rural Ethiopia / доклад на 25 конференции IAAE, Reshaping Agriculture’s Contribution to Society, International Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa, 16-23 August 2003 (2003, unknown): “This is consistent with other studies (Martorell, 1999; Jensen, 2000; Hoddinott and Kinsey, 2001) that find children between 12 and 24 months to be especially vulnerable in the face of income shocks.”
Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries (2005, unknown): “Jacoby and Skoufias (1997) is just one of many studies that finds evidence that children in poor households work more and attend school less in response to idiosyncratic income shocks (Beegle, Dehejia, and Gatti 2003; Jensen 2000; Duryea, Lam, and Levison 2003).”
The Impact of Insurance Provision on Household Production and Financial Decisions (2016, background): “To protect themselves from such risks, rural households undertake risk management strategies such as using informal insurance, avoiding high risk-high return agricultural activities, holding precautionary savings, and reducing their investment in production (Morduch (1995), Rosenzweig and Stark (198”