Early‐life famine exposure, hunger recall, and later‐life health
早年饥荒暴露、饥饿回忆与晚年健康
Abstract We use newly collected individual‐level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later‐life health. We develop a two‐sample instrumental variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a nonlinear relationship between mortality rates, a commonly used famine indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may explain the variation…