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SUBMITTER: von der Goltz J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7695682 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
von der Goltz Jan J Dar Aaditya A Fishman Ram R Mueller Nathaniel D ND Barnwal Prabhat P McCord Gordon C GC
Journal of health economics 20200908
What is the contribution of the 'Green Revolution' to improvements in child health during the 20<sup>th</sup> century? We provide global scale estimates of this relationship by constructing a novel, spatially-precise indicator of modern crop variety (MV) diffusion and leveraging child-level data from over 600,000 children across 21,604 sampling locations in 37 developing countries between 1961-2000. Results indicate that the diffusion of MVs reduced infant mortality by 2.4-5.3 percentage points ...[more]