Famine at birth: long-term health effects of the 1974-75 Bangladesh famine
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Keywords
Bangladesh; fetal origin hypothesis; health; long-term effects; the 1974-75 Bangladesh famine;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2025-02-03 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2025-02-03 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2025-02-03 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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