Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic
Does the establishment of private property rights to 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 agricultura...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Kosec, Katrina Shemyakina, Olga N. |
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| description | Does the establishment of private property rights to 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 privatization reform and spatial variation in its timing to identify its health and nutrition impacts. We find that young children aged 0-5 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. Health improvements appear to be driven by increases in consumption of home-produced food—suggesting that increased private control over household production may translate into increased consumption and thus health dividends for young children. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1473412025-11-06T06:25:12Z Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic Kosec, Katrina Shemyakina, Olga N. human capital agrarian reform child nutrition health child health land ownership nutrition children private ownership land reform land Does the establishment of private property rights to 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 privatization reform and spatial variation in its timing to identify its health and nutrition impacts. We find that young children aged 0-5 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. Health improvements appear to be driven by increases in consumption of home-produced food—suggesting that increased private control over household production may translate into increased consumption and thus health dividends for young children. 2019-12-31 2024-06-21T09:13:26Z 2024-06-21T09:13:26Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147341 en https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.277302 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150160 https://academeresearchjournals.org/journal/jaed/archive/july-2013-vol.-2-%287%29/revisiting-food-and-nutrition-security:-a-comprehensive-overview https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aau010 https://doi.org/10.1086/719463 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134563 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kosec, Katrina; and Shemyakina, Olga N. 2019. Land reform and child health in the Kyrgyz Republic. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1904. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147341 |
| spellingShingle | human capital agrarian reform child nutrition health child health land ownership nutrition children private ownership land reform land Kosec, Katrina Shemyakina, Olga N. 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 | human capital agrarian reform child nutrition health child health land ownership nutrition children private ownership land reform land |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147341 |
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