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• Publications // 08.03.2012

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

  later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision [...] through a famine early in life does not necessarily imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference in outcomes between famine and non-famine [...] value by such a comparison of contextual famine effects. This paper contributes to the existing literature by being the first to combine the occurrence of famines with information on individual hunger periods