Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World()

What is the contribution of the ‘Green Revolution’ to improvements in child health during the [Formula: see text] century? We provide global scale estimates of this relationship by constructing a novel, spatially-precise indicator of modern crop variety (MV) diffusion and leveraging child-level data...

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Autores principales: von der Goltz, Jan, Dar, Aaditya, Fishman, Ram, Mueller, Nathaniel D., Barnwal, Prabhat, McCord, Gordon C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Elsevier North Holland 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7695682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33002797
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102373
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description What is the contribution of the ‘Green Revolution’ to improvements in child health during the [Formula: see text] century? We provide global scale estimates of this relationship by constructing a novel, spatially-precise indicator of modern crop variety (MV) diffusion and leveraging child-level data from over 600,000 children across 21,604 sampling locations in 37 developing countries between 1961–2000. Results indicate that the diffusion of MVs reduced infant mortality by 2.4–5.3 percentage points (from a baseline of 18%), with stronger effects for male infants and among poor households. The sizable contribution of agricultural technology to improved welfare should inform global food and development policy.
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spelling pubmed-76956822020-12-07 Health Impacts of the Green Revolution: Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World() von der Goltz, Jan Dar, Aaditya Fishman, Ram Mueller, Nathaniel D. Barnwal, Prabhat McCord, Gordon C. J Health Econ Article What is the contribution of the ‘Green Revolution’ to improvements in child health during the [Formula: see text] century? We provide global scale estimates of this relationship by constructing a novel, spatially-precise indicator of modern crop variety (MV) diffusion and leveraging child-level data from over 600,000 children across 21,604 sampling locations in 37 developing countries between 1961–2000. Results indicate that the diffusion of MVs reduced infant mortality by 2.4–5.3 percentage points (from a baseline of 18%), with stronger effects for male infants and among poor households. The sizable contribution of agricultural technology to improved welfare should inform global food and development policy. Elsevier North Holland 2020-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7695682/ /pubmed/33002797 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102373 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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