While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of … Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range of health and health-related behaviors, outcomes not previously …, there is no clear first-born advantage in health. However, later-borns are more likely to smoke and have poorer self …

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper uses a large dataset on the population of … Norway and focuses on the effect of birth order on a range of health and health-related behaviors, outcomes not previously …, there is no clear first-born advantage in health. However, later-borns are more likely to smoke and have poorer self …

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in …

, much less is known about intergenerational persistence in health. We examine the correlation in longevity (an overall … measure of health) across generations using a unique dataset containing information about more than 26 million families … health. Moreover, this correlation remained low throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries despite dramatic changes in …