Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 1, pp. 58-66
In this paper we estimate long-run effects of fetal exposure to the 1918/19 influenza pandemic for a European country. Using data from the 1970 Swiss census, we find that the male 1919 cohort that had a strongly increased likelihood of fetal exposure to the pandemic performs significantly worse...