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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2012

estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain … estimation to deal with imperfect recollection of conditions at very early stages of life. The estimated average causal effects …

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Individual mortality and macro-economic conditions from birth to death

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2003

We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business cycle conditions early in life as an exogenous indicator. Individual records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death, covering a window of unprecedented size...

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An econometric analysis of the mental-health effects of major events in the life of elderly individuals

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; Berg, Gerard J. … - 2001

estimation methods. We findsome strikingly large effects of certain events on the occurrence of depression. We show that the …

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Does the size of the effect of adverse events at high ages on daily-life physical functioning depend on the economic conditions around birth?

Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - 2014

This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...

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A validation study of transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on the third generation offspring's economic and health outcomes potentially driven by epigenetic imprinting

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Pinger, Pia - 2014

At the crossroads of economics and human biology, this paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent studies have found a negative association between conditions at ages 8-12 and the...

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