the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate … insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohorts. From the confidence intervals we can rule out effects … larger than 1-1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low SES …

health outcomes in the second generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using … persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for … birth outcomes for the third generation. The results show that all of the persistence in mortality is transmitted solely via …