Prenatal malnutrition and subsequent foetal loss risk: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Chinese famine
<b>Background</b>: Scientists disagree on whether prenatal malnutrition has long-term influences on women's reproductive function, and empirical evidence of such long-term effects remains limited and inconsistent. <b>Methods</b>: Using the retrospective pregnancy history...
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| description | <b>Background</b>: Scientists disagree on whether prenatal malnutrition has long-term influences on women's reproductive function, and empirical evidence of such long-term effects remains limited and inconsistent. <b>Methods</b>: Using the retrospective pregnancy history of 12,567 Chinese women collected in a nationally representative sample survey in 2001, this study conducted difference-in-differences analyses to investigate the relationship between prenatal exposure to the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China and the subsequent risk of involuntary foetal loss, including miscarriage and stillbirth, and how this relationship changes between the rural and urban populations. <b>Results</b>: Prenatal exposure to the Great Leap Forward Famine had no long-term effect on women's risk of miscarriage. Such an exposure increased the risk of stillbirth among urban women but not among rural women. <b>Conclusions</b>: The results support the foetal origins hypothesis. The significant urban-rural difference in the effect of prenatal famine exposure on stillbirth suggests the presence of a long-term negative foetal origins effect and a strong selection effect caused by famine-induced population attrition. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-293f9e50cf9745ebb3148be6fdf9ef382022-12-21T20:08:33ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712013-10-012926Prenatal malnutrition and subsequent foetal loss risk: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Chinese famineShige Song<b>Background</b>: Scientists disagree on whether prenatal malnutrition has long-term influences on women's reproductive function, and empirical evidence of such long-term effects remains limited and inconsistent. <b>Methods</b>: Using the retrospective pregnancy history of 12,567 Chinese women collected in a nationally representative sample survey in 2001, this study conducted difference-in-differences analyses to investigate the relationship between prenatal exposure to the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China and the subsequent risk of involuntary foetal loss, including miscarriage and stillbirth, and how this relationship changes between the rural and urban populations. <b>Results</b>: Prenatal exposure to the Great Leap Forward Famine had no long-term effect on women's risk of miscarriage. Such an exposure increased the risk of stillbirth among urban women but not among rural women. <b>Conclusions</b>: The results support the foetal origins hypothesis. The significant urban-rural difference in the effect of prenatal famine exposure on stillbirth suggests the presence of a long-term negative foetal origins effect and a strong selection effect caused by famine-induced population attrition.http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol29/26/difference-in-difference-in-differencefaminefoetal lossfoetal originsmultiple imputation |
| spellingShingle | Shige Song Prenatal malnutrition and subsequent foetal loss risk: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Chinese famine Demographic Research difference-in-difference-in-difference famine foetal loss foetal origins multiple imputation |
| title | Prenatal malnutrition and subsequent foetal loss risk: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Chinese famine |
| title_full | Prenatal malnutrition and subsequent foetal loss risk: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Chinese famine |
| title_fullStr | Prenatal malnutrition and subsequent foetal loss risk: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Chinese famine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prenatal malnutrition and subsequent foetal loss risk: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Chinese famine |
| title_short | Prenatal malnutrition and subsequent foetal loss risk: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Chinese famine |
| title_sort | prenatal malnutrition and subsequent foetal loss risk evidence from the 1959 1961 chinese famine |
| topic | difference-in-difference-in-difference famine foetal loss foetal origins multiple imputation |
| url | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol29/26/ |
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