Does early-life famine exposure lead to healthy later-life dietary behavior: Evidence from the great Chinese famine

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101446

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	Does early-life famine exposure lead to healthy later-life dietary behavior: Evidence from the great Chinese famine
	Wang, Yiru1 ; Shi, Ting2 ; Zang, Wenbin 1
	2024-12
发表期刊	ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY
卷号	55
摘要	This paper investigates the long-run effect of early-life exposure to famine on survivors' dietary behavior. By exploiting exogenous variations in local severity of the Great Chinese Famine and variations of different cohorts, we conduct a difference-in-differences analysis. Based on detailed three-day food intake records from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we find that famine exposure led the famine cohort who was conceived or born during the famine to adopt healthier dietary behaviors, as evidenced by a higher healthy eating score and a healthier dietary composition. Additionally, the pre-famine cohort exposed to the famine at ages 9-12 in late childhood exhibited a healthier food composition, characterized by a higher share of aquatic products. However, no statistically significant effects were observed for the pre-famine cohorts that experienced the famine in early and middle childhood. The results remain robust across various sensitivity checks. We propose that early-life famine exposure influences dietary behavior through mechanisms such as awareness of healthy eating, diet knowledge and risk aversion.
关键词	Early-life famine exposure Dietary behavior Healthy eating score Food composition
DOI	10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101446
收录类别	SCIE ; SSCI
ISSN	1570-677X
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Business & Economics ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
WOS类目	Economics ; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
WOS记录号	WOS:001360687800001
出版者	ELSEVIER
原始文献类型	Article
EISSN	1873-6130
引用统计	被引频次[WOS]：0 [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.lzufe.edu.cn/handle/39EH0E1M/38335
专题	会计学院金融学院
通讯作者	Wang, Yiru
作者单位	1.Southwestern Univ Finance & Econ, Chengdu, Peoples R China; 2.Lanzhou Univ Finance & Econ, Lanzhou, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Yiru,Shi, Ting,Zang, Wenbin. Does early-life famine exposure lead to healthy later-life dietary behavior: Evidence from the great Chinese famine[J]. ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY,2024,55.
APA	Wang, Yiru,Shi, Ting,&Zang, Wenbin.(2024).Does early-life famine exposure lead to healthy later-life dietary behavior: Evidence from the great Chinese famine.ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY,55.
MLA	Wang, Yiru,et al."Does early-life famine exposure lead to healthy later-life dietary behavior: Evidence from the great Chinese famine".ECONOMICS & HUMAN BIOLOGY 55(2024).