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SUBMITTER: Tomita S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4361632 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tomita Shinsuke S Parker Daniel M DM Jennings Julia A JA Wood James J
PloS one 20150316 3
This paper extends Alexandr Chayanov's model of changing household demography (specifically the ratio of food consumers to food producers) and its influence on agricultural behavior so that it includes possible adverse effects of a rising ratio on nutritional status and early childhood mortality within the household. We apply the model to 35 years' worth of longitudinal demographic and economic data collected in the irrigated-rice growing village of Na Savang in northern Laos. When appropriate c ...[more]