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Does a mother’s exposure to drought in utero increase the resistance of her offspring to in utero shocks?

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  • Yaya Saidou Jallow

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This paper seeks to determine whether, by being exposed to a drought in utero, a mother can transfer resistance of in utero exposure to drought to her offspring. Results of the difference-in-difference model show that there is a form of resistance transfer from mother to child, with double exposed children having better weight-for age and weight-for height measures than children whose mothers were not exposed in utero. In addition to the above, the paper also shows that by using a difference-in-difference model and identifying two shocks, the effect of in utero drought on child health and the intergenerational transfer of in utero shocks from mother to child can also be estimated.

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  • Yaya Saidou Jallow, 2017. "Does a mother’s exposure to drought in utero increase the resistance of her offspring to in utero shocks?," Discussion Papers in Economics 17/16, Division of Economics, School of Business, University of Leicester.
    • Handle: RePEc:lec:leecon:17/16
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    Keywords

    Child health; In Utero; Drought; Intergenerational transmission;
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    JEL classification:

    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • C49 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Other

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