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dc.contributor.authorStillman, Stevenen
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Duncanen
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:13:18Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:13:18Z-
dc.date.issued2004-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/20327-
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examinethe relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources andshort-run fluctuations in household resources. We evaluate six measures of nutrition – grossenergy intake, two dimensions of diet quality, body mass index (BMI), which is a measure ofnet energy intake for adults, and for children, weight for height and stature. Our findingindicate a clear positive effect of longer-run resources on energy intake, diet composition,adult BMI, and child stature.Between 1996 and 2000, Russian households experienced a dramatic decline in income andexpenditure and then an equally dramatic rise. We exploit the panel nature of RLMS toidentify the causal effect of changes in household resources on nutritional status. In contrastto the large decline in expenditure in 1998, nutritional status appears to be very resilient tovariation in household resources and this is reflected in gross energy intake, adult BMI, andchild stature, which all change very little as expenditure deviates from its long-run average.Diet composition, however, does change in response to transitory variation in householdresources. It appears that individuals and households are able to weather large economiccrises at least in terms of maintaining body mass and energy intake.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x1092en
dc.subject.jelD12en
dc.subject.jelP36en
dc.subject.jelO12en
dc.subject.jelI12en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordnutritionen
dc.subject.keywordcaloric intakeen
dc.subject.keywordBMIen
dc.subject.keywordconsumption smoothingen
dc.subject.keywordeconomic shocksen
dc.subject.keywordRussiaen
dc.subject.keywordeconomic crisesen
dc.subject.stwErnährungen
dc.subject.stwHaushaltseinkommenen
dc.subject.stwVerbraucherausgabenen
dc.subject.stwUnterernährungen
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftskriseen
dc.subject.stwRusslanden
dc.titleThe Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status : Evidence from Russia-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn384723721en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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