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Dust to Feed, Dust to Grey : The Effect of In-Utero Exposure to the Dust Bowl on Old-Age Longevity
Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
-life health find inconclusive and mixed results. This paper re-evaluates this literature and studies the long-term effects of in …
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The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement : Japanese American Incarceration during WWII
Grossman, Daniel; Khalil, Umair; Panza, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the intergenerational health consequences of forced displacement and incarceration of Japanese Americans in … the US during WWII. Incarcerated mothers had babies who were less healthy at birth. This decrease in health represents a … intergenerational health, our results are a lower bound …
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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127786
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329078
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An anthropometric history of early-modern France
Komlos, John; Hau, Michel; Bourginat, Nicolas - 2003
The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have been about 162 cm in the 17th century. This extremely short stature implies that "the crisis of the 17th century" had an immense impact on the human organism itself. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440939
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Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data : The Census Tree Project
Buckles, Kasey S.; Haws, Adrian; Price, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The Census Tree is the largest-ever database of record links among the historical U.S. censuses, with over 700 million links for people living in the United States between 1850 and 1940. These high-quality links allow researchers in the social sciences and other disciplines to construct a...
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The evolution of retirement : an American economic history, 1880 - 1990
Costa, Dora L. - 1998
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Age discrimination by employers
Segrave, Kerry - 2001
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The trend of BMI values by centiles of US adults, birth cohorts 1882 - 1986
Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2010
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994174
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The trend of BMI values among US adults
Komlos, John; Brabek, Marek - 2010
Background: The trend in the BMI values of the US population has not been estimated accurately because time series data are unavailable and because the focus has been on calculating period effects. Object: To estimate the trend and rate of change of BMI values by birth cohorts stratified by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945803