Essays estimating the impact of historical public health crises on development and the human condition
@inproceedings{Gooch2014EssaysET, title={Essays estimating the impact of historical public health crises on development and the human condition}, author={E. Gooch}, year={2014} }
Essays Estimating the Impact of Historical Public Health Crises on Development and the Human Condition By Elizabeth Fair Gooch August 2014 Committee Chair: Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Major Department: Economics The lead essay measures the long-term impact of famine severity during the 1959-1961 Great Chinese Famine on contemporary per capita GDP and rural household income in China. Empirical results present a consistently negative relationship between famine severity and per capita GDP in 2010… CONTINUE READING
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