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Famines Past, Famine’s Future [PDF]

Famine, like poverty, has always been with us. No region and no century has been immune. Its scars—economic, psychological, and political—can long outlast its immediate impact on mortality and health.
Cormac Ó Gráda
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Economic Reform and Alternatives for North Korea [PDF]

This chapter assesses the potential for reform in North Korea, and considers the lessons learned from economic reform and transition in China, the Soviet Union, and Central Europe.
Elliott Parker, Thomas Cargill
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From the Great Chinese Famine to the Communist Famines [PDF]

China Perspectives, 2013
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Famine Exposure in Early Life and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Adulthood: Comparisons of Different Metabolic Syndrome Definitions

Journal of Diabetes Research, 2019
This study examined the association between famine exposure in early life and the risk of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adulthood during the 1959–1961 Chinese Famine.
Feng Ning, Jie Ren, Xin Song, Dong Zhang, Li Liu, Lei Zhang, Jianping Sun, Dongfeng Zhang, Zengchang Pang, Qing Qiao, on behalf of Qingdao Diabetes Prevention Program   +10 more
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Large Demographic Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market [PDF]

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine affected cohorts in rural areas of Sichuan and Anhui.
Brandt, Loren, Siow, Aloysius, Vogel, Carl   +2 more
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Correction to: Increase in the prevalence of hypertension among adults exposed to the great Chinese famine during early life

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2018
The ‘Conclusion’ section in the Abstract was published incorrectly in the original publication of the article [1] and is corrected with this erratum as below: “Fetal exposure to the Chinese famine may be associated with an increased risk of hypertension ...
Lingli Liu, Xianglong Xu, Huan Zeng, Yong Zhang, Zumin Shi, Fan Zhang, Xianqing Cao, Yao Jie Xie, Cesar Reis, Yong Zhao   +9 more
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Does the IV estimator establish causality? Re-examining Chinese fertility-growth relationship [PDF]

The instrumental variable (IV) estimator in a cross-sectional or panel regression model is often taken to provide valid causal inference from contemporaneous correlations.
Jiaying Gu, Tilak Abeysinghe
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A novel interpretation of farmland abandonment: evidence from the famine experience

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The growing severity of farmland abandonment in rural areas has sparked concerns about the lack of people willing to cultivate the land. This study attempts to find the endogenous factors of farmland land abandonment among Chinese farmers and to curb ...
Linling Geng, Yifeng Zhang
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Early-life famine exposure may modify the association between long-term temperature variability and cardio-cerebrovascular diseases: a nationwide study

Environmental Research: Health
We aimed to evaluate whether the association between long-term temperature variability (TV) and cardio-cerebrovascular diseases (CCVDs) was affected by famine exposure in different age stages. We used data from the fourth national urban and rural elderly
Yao Wu, BinBin Su, Junqing Xie, Bo Wen, Xiaolan Wu, Mengfan Wang, Yanhui Dong, Yi Song, Jun Ma   +8 more
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Early-life famine exposure increases the risk of subsequent physical disability: evidence from a national population-based survey

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundDue to ethical constraints, famines, which can lead to severe malnutrition, are often viewed as natural experiments to assess the impact of early-life nutritional malnutrition on adverse health outcomes in adulthood. However, evidence regarding
Shiwei Cao, Yao Wu, Tengfei Niu, Xiyu Chen, Jie Xiang, Hao Li, Ziyi Chen, Qianying Shi, Yu Du, Yu Du   +9 more
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