Can the effect of a positive health shock, such as childhood vaccination, transmit across three generations? To answer … this question, we estimate the impact of smallpox vaccination in childhood on the longevity and occupational achievements …-share instrumental variable, utilizing the fact that vaccination in Sweden was administered by the low-skilled clergy, who otherwise did …

Can the effect of a positive health shock, such as childhood vaccination, transmit across three generations? To answer … this question, we estimate the impact of smallpox vaccination in childhood on the longevity and occupational achievements …-share instrumental variable, utilizing the fact that vaccination in Sweden was administered by the low-skilled clergy, who otherwise did …

growth and harm future generations. On the other hand, competitive equilibria are inefficient if externalities sustain long …

This paper examines the impact of the SARS epidemic in 2003 on intergenerational mobility in China. Using large cross …-city variation in SARS cases, our triple difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the SARS epidemic significantly increases … leads to a 9.3 percent increase in the maternal intergeneration transmission coefficient. The effect of the SARS epidemic is …