Vellore Arthi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1510296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vellore Arthi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vellore |
| FAMILY NAME | Arthi |
| SIGNATURE | ARTHI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6565-6655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The decline of child stunting in 122 countries
INTRODUCTION: Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in 2022; however, trends before the mid-1980s are unclear, including whether child stunting was previously prevalent in current high-income countries (HICs). We conducted a systematic review of child growth studies before 1990 to reconstruct historical…
Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection
What is the role of trade policy in promoting intra-Empire trade? We address the question in the context of interwar India, whose trade policies have been accused of harming British export interests. We quantify the impact of trade policy on the value and composition of Indian imports, using novel disaggregated data on both trade policies and imports for 114 commodity categories coming from 42 countries. We find that, even though Indian protectio…
Infant feeding and post-weaning health
Disease, downturns, and wellbeing
The Dust Was Long in Settling
I find that childhood exposure to the Dust Bowl, an environmental shock to health and income, adversely impacted later-life human capital-especially when exposure wasin utero-increasing poverty and disability rates, and decreasing fertility and college completion rates. The event's devastation of agriculture, however, had the beneficial effect of increasing high school completion, likely by pushing children who otherwise might have worked on the …
Not your average job
Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria
Not your average job
The Dust Was Long in Settling
I find that childhood exposure to the Dust Bowl, an environmental shock to health and income, adversely impacted later-life human capital-especially when exposure wasin utero-increasing poverty and disability rates, and decreasing fertility and college completion rates. The event's devastation of agriculture, however, had the beneficial effect of increasing high school completion, likely by pushing children who otherwise might have worked on the …
Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria
Disease, downturns, and wellbeing
Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection
What is the role of trade policy in promoting intra-Empire trade? We address the question in the context of interwar India, whose trade policies have been accused of harming British export interests. We quantify the impact of trade policy on the value and composition of Indian imports, using novel disaggregated data on both trade policies and imports for 114 commodity categories coming from 42 countries. We find that, even though Indian protectio…
Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria
Not your average job
The Dust Was Long in Settling
I find that childhood exposure to the Dust Bowl, an environmental shock to health and income, adversely impacted later-life human capital-especially when exposure wasin utero-increasing poverty and disability rates, and decreasing fertility and college completion rates. The event's devastation of agriculture, however, had the beneficial effect of increasing high school completion, likely by pushing children who otherwise might have worked on the …
Infant feeding and post-weaning health
Disease, downturns, and wellbeing
Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection
What is the role of trade policy in promoting intra-Empire trade? We address the question in the context of interwar India, whose trade policies have been accused of harming British export interests. We quantify the impact of trade policy on the value and composition of Indian imports, using novel disaggregated data on both trade policies and imports for 114 commodity categories coming from 42 countries. We find that, even though Indian protectio…
The decline of child stunting in 122 countries
INTRODUCTION: Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in 2022; however, trends before the mid-1980s are unclear, including whether child stunting was previously prevalent in current high-income countries (HICs). We conducted a systematic review of child growth studies before 1990 to reconstruct historical…
Economics (5 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Agricultural risk and resilience (2 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)