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This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions … during the pandemic are shorter as child/teenagers, less educated, and more likely to have serious health problems, including … positive selection on health from high infant mortality rates during this period (18 percent), our findings suggest a strong …
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in Taiwan as a natural experiment. Combining several historical and current datasets, we find that cohorts in utero … during the pandemic are shorter as children/adolescents and less educated compared to other birth cohorts. We also find that … they are more likely to have serious health problems including kidney disease, circulatory and respiratory problems, and …
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childhood ; education ; health ; Taiwan …We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan …
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We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting … variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan … to worse mental and physical health outcomes in old age as reflected in particular in worse cognitive function, a higher …
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