van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten; López, Marta - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class …. We use individual data records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death certificates, covering the period 1815 … inequality measures. The results indicate that being born in a recession increases the mortality rate later in life for most of …