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Molecular Basis of Nutrition and Aging: A Volume in the Molecular Nutrition Series

Molecular Basis of Nutrition and Aging: A Volume in the Molecular Nutrition Series focuses on the nutritional issues associated with aging and the important metabolic consequences of diet, nutrition, and health. The book is subdivided into four parts that reflect the impact of nutrition from a biomolecular level to individual health. In Part One, chapters explore the general aspects of aging, aging phenotypes, and relevant aspects of nutrition related to the elderly and healthy aging. Part Tw...

Do Rural Development Policy Measures Really Affect Farmers’ Behaviour and Performance? A Synthetic Difference-In-Differences Estimation

This paper deals with the response of farmers to targeted policy measures. The research question consists of whether and to what extent this response, upon voluntary adoption and eventually driven by private motivations, also generates the outcome of societal interest. Challenges posed by these policies are multiple since they may admit a staggered adoption with often very few, at least initially, treated units. In order to deal with these challenges, the paper adopts a Synthetic Difference-i...

Expected Foreign Military Intervention and Demand for State-Building: Evidence from Mali

We study the informational effects of foreign military intervention on citizens’ motivations to participate in state-building processes. We analyze the 2012 United Nations Security Council resolution that authorized intervention in Mali to reunify the country and restore democracy during a profound institutional crisis. By exploiting the randomness of the foreign intervention announcement, relative to the timeline of the Afrobarometer interviews, we document that individuals interviewed the d...