Nutrition and Labor Producvivity in Agriculture: Estimates for Rural South India
利用印度南部农村的面板数据，估计了工人热量摄入和营养状况（身高别体重）对市场工资和农场产出的影响，发现短期热量摄入影响不显著，但慢性营养不良导致的身高别体重下降对工资和产出有高弹性。
Using panel data for rural South India, a fixed-effects individual wage equation and farm production function are estimated that have calorie intake and nutritional status (weight-for-height) of workers as their arguments. Neither market wages, nor farm output, are observed to be responsive to changes in the daily energy intake of workers. However, both are highly elastic with respect to weight-for-height. These results suggest that, while the human body can adapt to inadequate nutrition in the short run, it cannot adapt as readily to chronic malnutrition that eventually results in loss of weight-for-height. Copyright 1988 by MIT Press.