Health and Hunger: Disease, Energy Needs, and the Indian Calorie Consumption Puzzle

Economic Journal

Volumn 127, Issue 606, 2017, Pages 2378-2409

  Duh, Josephine ^a   Spears, Dean ^b  

^a The Brattle Group and rice   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; DISEASE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INFANT MORTALITY; SANITATION;

INDIA;

EID: 85018939346     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12417     Document Type: Article

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