Macro shocks and micro outcomes: child nutrition during Indonesia’s crisis

Block, Steven A.; Kiess, Lynnda; Webb, Patrick; Kosen, Soewarta; Moench-Pfanner, Regina; Bloem, Martin W.; Timmer, C. Peter

doi:10.1016/j.ehb.2003.12.007

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“…An important additional point is that the impacts of food price rises are critically affected by their timing relative to seasonality (as it affects prices, wages, livelihood opportunities, food stocks, etc) and relative to other changes in the economy (for example changes in other commodity prices, in livelihood opportunities other sectors) and by spatial variables (for example Hella et al, 2011;Perez et al, 2011). These findings are also supported by earlier studies of effects of high rice prices, such as Block et al, 2004, which found increased malnutrition rates as a result of the impacts of the Asian crisis in Indonesia 10 , and Torlesse et al, 2003, which found a negative correlation between rice prices and nutritional status in Bangladesh.…”

Section: Empirical Evidence and Debates On The Welfare Impacts Of Recsupporting

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The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

Dorward

2012

Food Sec.

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Section: Empirical Evidence and Debates On The Welfare Impacts Of Recsupporting

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The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

Dorward

2012

Food Sec.

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“…Females must acquire adequate calories and nutrition, while also caring for themselves during gestation in order to ensure their ultimate reproductive success. In marginal environments, reproduction often leads to maternal wasting (Block et al, 2004;Stein and Lumey, 2000). By definition PI does not end with birth in humans and other Kselected species.…”

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Parental Investment, Late Reproduction, and Increased Reserve Capacity Are Associated with Longevity in Humans

Larke

Crews

2006

J Physiol Anthropol

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Throughout the living world trade-offs between reproductive success and longevity have been observed. In general, two extremes of life history patterning are reported, r-and K-selected species. The latter tend toward larger body sizes, few offspring from any one pregnancy, few offspring over the female reproductive span, longer life spans, and greater parental investment (PI: all efforts and expenses associated with the production, gestation, post-natal care, feeding, and protection of young) (e.g., whales, elephants, hominids). r-selected species tend toward smaller body size, multiple births/litters per pregnancy, female production of many gametes and offspring over the life span, and low levels of PI (e.g., most plants, insects, mice). These differences have significant influences on physiological variation among human populations.Across human samples, reproductive success (RS: the number of offspring successfully birthed and reared to reproductive age) has been reported to vary positively, negatively, and not at all with longevity of women. This complexity may be in part due to the fact that both early-life and late-life fecundity are associated with longevity in women, while total parity seems a poor gauge of female longevity in humankind. Large variations in associations of RS with longevity in women suggest that multiple factors may confound this association. One confounding factor is that among women, RS is largely determined not by fecundity, but by the quality of PI available to offspring. Among modern humans, PI is more complex, longer lasting (both relatively and absolutely), and extensive than for any other mammal. This suggests that modern human life history is a reflection of the co-evolution of longevity and extensive PI as part of our species' biocultural evolution. The need for long-term PI has greatly shaped human physiological variation and patterns of longevity.

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“…The Government of Indonesia's policy response to the East Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998 is one such example. 3 While there is ample evidence that the nutritional status of young children did not decline in Indonesia in the wake of the 1997/98 financial crisis (e.g., Block et al, 2004;Frankenberg et al, 1999;Strauss et al, 2004;Thomas and Frankenberg, 2007), research as to whether specific policies can be credited with helping to avert negative consequences to nutritional status is relatively sparse. 4 By improving our understanding of how Indonesia's policy response affected child nutritional outcomes, this paper aims to offer lessons for policymakers both in Indonesia and in other economies with vulnerable populations.…”

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Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis: Evidence from Indonesia

Giles

Satriawan

2015

Journal of Development Economics

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Macro shocks and micro outcomes: child nutrition during Indonesia’s crisis

Cited by 203 publications

References 18 publications

The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

The short- and medium- term impacts of rises in staple food prices

Parental Investment, Late Reproduction, and Increased Reserve Capacity Are Associated with Longevity in Humans

Protecting child nutritional status in the aftermath of a financial crisis: Evidence from Indonesia

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