Essays on early-life malnutrition and adulthood socioeconomic outcomes: Bangladesh evidence

Abstract

This thesis investigates the long-term socioeconomic impacts of early-life malnutrition using two famines and flood in Bangladesh as natural experiment. This thesis exploits national census dataset with 10.58 million observations using difference-in-difference estimation and finds significant effects for the survivors, who were exposed to these events at early ages.<br /