. Using Danish administrative data linking parents experiencing plant closures to their children, we compare end … taking, scores, and high school enrolment among children exposed during infancy (age 0-1). Effects are largest for low …-income families and low-achieving children. The causal chain from job loss to education likely works through reduced family income …

exists that examines this health shock on mortality because of lack of available data. This paper uses newly released files …A growing literature in economics and other disciplines has tied exposure to early health shocks, particularly in utero … influenza, to reductions in a variety of socioeconomic and health outcomes over the life course. However, no current evidence …

interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which …

interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which …