Between mid-1939 and mid-1943 almost 2.2 million additional women were recruited into Britain's essential war … industries. These consisted, predominantly, of young women recruited into metal and chemical industries. Much of the increased … of Engagement Order whereby women between the ages of 18 and 40 who either entered the labour market or who changed …

We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more … aggregate data by date-of-birth cohort to construct a 'synthetic cohort' dataset with details of income, expenditure, socio … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …