Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/237787 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. TI 2021-054/V
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a non-linear relationship between the Great Chinese Famine and hunger recall. The non-linearity in famine exposure may explain the variation in the famine's effect on later life health found in previous studies. We also find that exposure to famine-induced hunger early in life leads to worse health among females fifty years later. This effect is larger than the reduced-form effect found in previous studies. For males, we find no impact.
Subjects: 
famine
hunger
developmental origins
two-sample instrumental variable
JEL: 
I12
J11
C21
C26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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