Land policies and household economic situations in Cambodia

我正在开发这个项目的各种文件。我已开始撰写两篇有关柬埔寨土地政策的论文的手稿。第一个问题涉及森林砍伐和儿童营养。我将联合收割机精确的森林损失数据与柬埔寨人口健康调查的地理编码数据相结合，以调查森林砍伐对儿童发育迟缓的影响。砍伐森林主要是由经济活动驱动的，如经济土地征用。我发现，生活在森林砍伐率高的地区的女孩更有可能发育不良，而男孩则不会。发育迟缓是衡量长期营养不良的标准。我还发现生活在森林砍伐率高的地区的女孩更容易发烧。我完成了手稿的写作，SSRN上有一个预发表的在线版本。这篇论文目前正在一份同行评议的经济学杂志上进行评审，我将在南非开普敦举行的国际卫生经济学协会第15届世界大会上发表演讲。第二篇论文是关于社区林业和食物消费。我应用差异中的差异方法来了解社区森林如何影响食物消费。我发现，生活在这些森林附近地区的家庭比没有森林的家庭有更高的食物消费水平。我仍在撰写这份手稿，并在东北大学的一个研讨会上介绍了这项研究的初步结果。

I am working on developing various papers from this project. I have started writing the manuscript of two papers related to land policies in Cambodia. The first one deals with deforestation and child nutrition. I combine precise forest loss data with geocoded data from the Cambodian Demographic Health Surveys to investigate the impact of deforestation on child stunting. Deforestation is mostly driven by economic activities such as Economic Land Consessions. I find that girls living in areas with high deforestation rates are more likely to be stunted whereas boys are not. Stunted is a measurement for long-term undernourishment. I also find that girls living in areas with high rates of deforestation are more likely to have fever.I finalized writing the manuscript and there is a pre-publication online version available on SSRN. This manuscript is corrently under review in a peer-reviewed economic journal and I will deliver a talk in the 15th World Congress of the International Health Economics Association in Cape Town, South Africa. The second paper is about community forestry and food consumption. I apply a difference in differences approach to understand how community forest impact food consumption. I find that households living in areas near to these forests have higher levels of food consumption than their counterparts without. I am still working on this manuscript and I have presented the preliminary findings of this study in a seminar at Tohoku University.