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claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall …
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The Antebellum Puzzle' describes the situation of declining stature and pos mortality in the three decades prior to the American Civil War (1861-65). It is this period was one of rapid economic growth and development in the United State the debate has centered on whether the American diet, both...
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We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor …
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differences in wartime health. For example, the advantages of light-skinned soldiers over dark-skinned and of enlisted men … soldiers. Among the factors that contributed to a lower probability of contracting and dying from diseases were (1) lighter … nutritional status. The results of this paper suggest that there were substantial disparities in the health of the slave …
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We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor …
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Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is … understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of … differences in the stock of health capital across families and thus across ethnic, racial and social groups. I study how a …
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The composition, wealth and employment of male veterans and nonveterans are analyzed for four cohorts from the Health …
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The composition, wealth, and employment of male veterans and nonveterans are analyzed for four cohorts from the Health …
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humanitarian organizations, and other mental health stake holders are to respond to the findings by providing psychotherapy and …
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