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Essays on early-life malnutrition and adulthood socioeconomic outcomes: Bangladesh evidence

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posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by Nourin Shabnam
This thesis investigates the long-term socioeconomic impacts of early-life malnutrition using two famines and flood in Bangladesh as natural experiment. This thesis exploits national census dataset with 10.58 million observations using difference-in-difference estimation and finds significant effects for the survivors, who were exposed to these events at early ages.<br>

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thesis

Resource type

thesis

Language

eng

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The Author. All Rights Reserved.

Editor/Contributor(s)

M Ulubasoglu, C Guven

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xvi, 147 pages : maps, tables, graphs, some coloured

Degree type

Research doctorate

Degree name

PhD

Thesis faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

Thesis school

Department of Economics

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