Food Affordability and Double Catastrophe in Early Life: Lessons from the 1974–75 Bangladesh Famine
(2022)
Journal Article
Shabnam, N., Ulubaşoğlu, M. A., & Guven, C. (2022). Food Affordability and Double Catastrophe in Early Life: Lessons from the 1974–75 Bangladesh Famine. Economic Record, 98(S1), 24-51. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12668
We study the educational outcomes of the 1974–75 Bangladesh famine among early life survivors using the 1991 Bangladesh micro-census data. We find that famine adversely affected survivor children in areas that experienced higher rice prices relative... Read More about Food Affordability and Double Catastrophe in Early Life: Lessons from the 1974–75 Bangladesh Famine.