| Titre : | The North Korean standard of living during the famine. (2008) |
| Auteurs : | SCHWEKENDIEK (Daniel) : DEU. Department of Economics. University of Tuehingen. |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 66, n° 3, 2008) |
| Pagination : | 596-608 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Nord ; Niveau vie ; Malnutrition ; Nutrition ; Alimentation ; Anthropométrie ; Homme ; Corée ; Asie du Nord ; Asie ; Corée du Nord |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS OdR0xILE. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. For decades, North Korea has been one of the world's most secluded societies. Due to a lack of reliable statistics, little analytical research has been done on the well-being of those who suffer most under totalitarianism : the North Korean people. By considering height data as a sensitive indicator of the North Korean standard of living, we explain what has historically influenced the welfare of children in different regions. Using cross-sectional data from 1997 when the peak of the infamous famine coincided with extreme environmental influences, we primarily test a number of socioeconomic hypotheses that have been proposed in the literature. Of these, the public distribution system and local harvest conditions-which may reflect black and grey market activity-were found as having a positive and statistically significant effect on height outcomes. Furthermore, from a biological point of view, males and older birth cohorts seem to have suffered more during the famine of the 1990s. |
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