on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely …-economic, biological and health data from over 75k individuals aged between 18 and 63. We conclude that women born in adverse economic …

We examine whether economic downturns are beneficial to health outcomes of newborn infants in developed countries. For … this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with …

parental unemployment on children's weight before, during and after a recession. Child growth charts are used to quantify …The incidence of adiposity in the early years of life has outgrown the prevalence rate in older children and … adolescents globally; however, the relationships between unemployment and weight are predominantly studied in adults. This study …

utero. The negative relationship between the in utero aggregate unemployment rate and infant health also disappears when …We revisit the cyclical nature of birth rates and infant health and investigate to what extent the relationship between … through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that …