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Speculative Price Bubbles in the Rice Market and the 1974 Bangladesh Famine [PDF]

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This paper investigates the role played by speculative price bubbles in destabilizing food markets in Bangladesh during the 1974 famine. The hypothesis of speculative price bubbles in the rice market is tested using weekly price data.
Charles Becker, Munir Quddus
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Association of famine exposure and the serum calcium level in healthy Chinese adults. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Endocrinol (Lausanne), 2022
Yang YY   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

“Insufficient for the Support of a Family” - Wages on the Public Works During the Great Irish Famine [PDF]

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This paper presents a model of the money wage paid on the public works during the Irish Famine. The administrators are assumed to minimise a cost function that includes the divergence from the target as well as the increase compared to the wage that ...
Pat McGregor
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Famine exposure in early life and type 2 diabetes in adulthood: findings from prospective studies in China. [PDF]

open access: yesNutr Res Pract, 2023
Ning F   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Prenatal famine exposure restricts genetic effects on birth weight with implications for metabolic disease risk. [PDF]

open access: yesCommun Med (Lond)
Taeubert MJ   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Long-Term Economic Impact of In Utero and Postnatal Exposure to Malaria [PDF]

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I use an instrumental-variables identification strategy and historical data from the United States to estimate the long-term economic impact of in utero and postnatal exposure to malaria.
Alan Barreca
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Youth United for Famine Relief

open access: yes, 1946
Report on a conference of the National Social Welfare Assembly in cooperation with the President's Famine Emergency Committee held on July 15, 1946. It details the formation of the Youth Food Auxiliary Committee of the Famine Emergency Committee, and ...
United States. President's Famine Emergency Committee; National Social Welfare Assembly
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