Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic
Does privatizing land improve child health and nutrition outcomes? We exploit a natural experiment in The Kyrgyz Republic following the collapse of socialism whereby the government rapidly liquidated state and collective farms containing 75 percent of agricultural land and distributed it to individu...
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| author | Kosec, Katrina Shemyakina, Olga |
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| description | Does privatizing land improve child health and nutrition outcomes? We exploit a natural experiment in The Kyrgyz Republic following the collapse of socialism whereby the government rapidly liquidated state and collective farms containing 75 percent of agricultural land and distributed it to individuals, providing 99-year transferrable use rights. We use household surveys collected before, during, and after the reform and data on the spatial variation in the timing of privatization to identify its health and nutrition impacts. We find that children exposed to land privatization for longer periods of time accumulated significantly greater gains in height and weight, both critical measures of long-term health and nutrition. Children who benefited most from privatization were between the ages of 1 and 1.5—possibly due to protective effects of breastfeeding for children younger than a year old, and reduced vulnerability to health shocks at older ages. We find no evidence of significant gender differences in the effects of privatization. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1473402025-02-24T06:45:34Z Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic Kosec, Katrina Shemyakina, Olga child nutrition health land tenure child health nutrition children privatization land reform Does privatizing land improve child health and nutrition outcomes? We exploit a natural experiment in The Kyrgyz Republic following the collapse of socialism whereby the government rapidly liquidated state and collective farms containing 75 percent of agricultural land and distributed it to individuals, providing 99-year transferrable use rights. We use household surveys collected before, during, and after the reform and data on the spatial variation in the timing of privatization to identify its health and nutrition impacts. We find that children exposed to land privatization for longer periods of time accumulated significantly greater gains in height and weight, both critical measures of long-term health and nutrition. Children who benefited most from privatization were between the ages of 1 and 1.5—possibly due to protective effects of breastfeeding for children younger than a year old, and reduced vulnerability to health shocks at older ages. We find no evidence of significant gender differences in the effects of privatization. 2019-10-23 2024-06-21T09:13:26Z 2024-06-21T09:13:26Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147340 en https://doi.org/10.1086/719463 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133567 Open Access World Bank Kosec, Katrina; and Shemyakina, Olga. 2018. Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic. Presented at the 30th International Conference of Agricultural Economists in Vancouver, Canada, July 28-August 2, 2018. https://purl.umn.edu/277302 |
| spellingShingle | child nutrition health land tenure child health nutrition children privatization land reform Kosec, Katrina Shemyakina, Olga Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic |
| title | Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic |
| title_full | Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic |
| title_fullStr | Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic |
| title_full_unstemmed | Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic |
| title_short | Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic |
| title_sort | land reform and child health in the kyrgyz republic |
| topic | child nutrition health land tenure child health nutrition children privatization land reform |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147340 |
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