TY - JOUR
T1 - Health Impacts of the Green Revolution
T2 - Evidence from 600,000 births across the Developing World
AU - von der Goltz, Jan
AU - Dar, Aaditya
AU - Fishman, Ram
AU - Mueller, Nathaniel D.
AU - Barnwal, Prabhat
AU - McCord, Gordon C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors listed in random order. This research was supported by the CGIAR Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) through the program of “Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR”, grant number OPP1009472 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We thank the editor and anonymous referees for constructive comments, and Douglas Gollin for advice on modern variety datasets. We also thank Jiyoung Kim, Bhanu Shikha and Nikhitha Mathew for excellent research assistance.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/9
Y1 - 2020/9
N2 - 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 developing 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.
AB - 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 developing 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.
KW - Agricultural technology
KW - Green Revolution
KW - Infant mortality
KW - Modern seed varieties
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85091803117&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102373
DO - 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102373
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C2 - 33002797
AN - SCOPUS:85091803117
SN - 0167-6296
VL - 74
SP - 1
EP - 20
JO - Journal of Health Economics
JF - Journal of Health Economics
M1 - 102373
ER -
