Publications by authors named "Laura Schenker"
Household behavior and vulnerability to acute malnutrition in Kenya.
Humanit Soc Sci Commun
February 2023
Anticipating those most at-risk of being acutely malnourished significantly shapes decisions that pertain to resource allocation and intervention in times of food crises. Yet, the assumption that household behavior in times of crisis is homogeneous-that households share the same capacity to adapt to external shocks-ostensibly prevails. This assumption fails to explain why, in a given geographical context, some households remain more vulnerable to acute malnutrition relative to others, and why a given risk factor may have a differential effect across households? In an effort to explore how variation in household behavior influences vulnerability to malnutrition, we use a unique household dataset that spans 23 Kenyan counties from 2016 to 2020 to seed, calibrate, and validate an evidence-driven computational model.
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- Scientists are using a new method to study mountain hares in the Swiss Alps by looking at their poop instead of catching them.
- They found that the number of male mountain hares changes a lot, and that males are less likely to survive compared to females.
- The study also discovered the first signs of European hares in the area, which could be a problem for the mountain hares due to competition and mixing of the two species.