Journal
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
Volume 74, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102373
Keywords
Agricultural technology; Modern seed varieties; Green Revolution; Infant mortality
Funding
- CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) through the program of Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1009472]
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [OPP1009472] Funding Source: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
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What is the contribution of the 'Green Revolution' to improvements in child health during the 20th 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 develop-ing countries between 1961-2000. Results indicate that the diffusion of MVs reduced infant mortality by 2.4-5.3 percentage points (from a baseline of 18%), with stronger effects for male infants and among poor households. The sizable contribution of agricultural technology to improved welfare should inform global food and development policy. (C) 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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