suggest the effects are more pronounced among children raised in farm households, females, and those with lower maternal …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

the preschool and school-aged children of working women during WWII. It remains, to this day, the only example in US … increasing the labor supply of mothers during WWII. Our information is at the city or town level and includes war contracts, the … size of and expenditures on the childcare program, and the "reserve labor force" of mothers as of 1939. We find that the …